Famous son comes "home" with help from royalty
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A bust to commemorate one of 新浪彩票's most distinguished sons - world-famous scientist Sir William Lawrence Bragg - has been unveiled by His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent at the University of 新浪彩票. Sir William Lawrence Bragg (Lawrence) graduated from the University of 新浪彩票 in mathematics in 1908, and in 1915 won the Nobel Prize jointly with his father, Sir William Henry Bragg. Together they worked out how to determine the molecular structure of crystals using x-rays. Lawrence Bragg remains the youngest scientist ever to win the Nobel Prize, at 25. The bronze bust by sculptor John Mills is a twin to that located in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, cast especially for the University of 新浪彩票. Another bust will be located at St Peter's College where Lawrence Bragg went to school, yet another is with the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, and a fifth is with the Bragg family. HRH the Duke of Kent, who is President of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, was in 新浪彩票 to launch the new Royal Institution of Australia, of which he will be Patron. Both Lawrence and William Bragg had been Directors of the Royal Institution. "It is a great honour to welcome the Duke of Kent to the University of 新浪彩票 and for him to see where the work of these famous scientists, William and Lawrence Bragg, began," said the Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor James McWha. "The University of 新浪彩票 is extremely proud to have been involved in the education and research of these great minds, whose work touches many
aspects of all of our lives, almost 100 years on." "Bragg's Law" is fundamental to the determination of the molecular structure of materials. The Braggs' work has had an enormous impact across modern science and its applications, in medicine, physics, chemistry and biological sciences, including determining the structures of proteins and DNA. Their techniques are routinely used in many industries, including the development of new drugs and chemicals and in the minerals industry. For example, the Bragg techniques were used to develop the an | 
