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A genius who knew nothing

02 Feb 2005

Light is a Messenger: The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg
Graeme K Hunter
2004 Oxford University Press 322pp £35.00/$59.50hb

Image of brilliance
Sir Lawrence Bragg was my professor in my student and early teaching days. To his family he was Will

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Brian Pippard was Cavendish Professor of Physics from 1971 to 1982.
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