Notebook of Sir William Henry Bragg and Sir William Lawrence Bragg
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Notebook of Sir William Henry Bragg and Sir William Lawrence Bragg
Classmark: MS 81/1
Creator(s): Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862-1942)(); Bragg, Sir William Lawrence (1890-1971)()
Date(s): 1913
Size and medium: 1 volume
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6228
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Contains manuscript notes on experiments made for research into X-ray spectra and crystal analysis, carried out by Sir William Henry Bragg and his son, Sir William Lawrence Bragg. The experiments were undertaken in 1913, in the Physical Laboratory of the University of Leeds.
The notes are in ink and pencil, and pages are numbered 1-101. There is a manuscript index on verso of the fly-leaf, with subjects listed alphabetically. Some of the pages are dated, ranging from July-September 1913.
The volume is lettered on front cover: 'PHYSICS DEPARTMENT. THE LEEDS UNIVERSITY.' Bookplate for the University of Leeds Library inside the front cover, with ‘The gift of Sir Lawrence Bragg 1945’ in typescript.
There are two press-cuttings attached to fly-leaf, describing the ceremony of unveiling a tablet in the Brotherton Library to commemorate the work of the late Sir William Bragg and his son, on 20 July 1945. The first press-cutting is from the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, dated 21 July 1945. The photograph shows Sir Lawrence Bragg, Colonel C.H. Tetley (Pro-Chancellor), Professor R.Whiddington, and B. Mouat Jones (Vice-Chancellor), in front of the tablet. The article describes how the tablet was a gift from the wife of Professor Arthur Smithells, former Professor of Chemistry at the University of Leeds and friend of Sir William Henry Bragg.
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Physical and technical conditions
52 ff. Some damage to the binding with some pages becoming loose.
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