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William was born in January 1893, in Australia.
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William was a professor of physics at the University of Manchester 1919-1938 and at Cambridge 1938-1954. He became interested in the work of Max von Laue, who claimed to have observed X-ray diffraction in crystals. Bragg was able to determine an equation now known as Bragg's law that enabled both him and his father to deduce the structure of crystals such as diamond, using the X-ray spectrometer built by his father.
