50 Years a Winner - Silent trim featuring William Lawrence Bragg drawing with his grandson

Описание: In 1965 the BBC commissioned a programme to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sir William Lawrence Bragg winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915, jointly with his father William Henry Bragg, for the development of X-ray Crystallography.

The Nobel Foundation were already celebrating the anniversary and work of WL Bragg by inviting him to speak about the developments in his area of study and to present the first ever Nobel guest lecture in the same year. Everyone was taking such a keen interest not only because the field of x-ray crystallography had spread into all areas of science, creating further Nobel Prize winners and helping to determine the structure of DNA, enzymes, haemoglobin, myoglobin and Vitamin B12, but also as WL Bragg won the Nobel Prize at the age of 25 (still the youngest ever person to be awarded one of the scientific prizes) he was the first person to reach his 50th anniversary celebrations. The '50 Years a Winner documentary' was first broadcast on the 2nd December 1965 and featured interviews with prominent scientists of the day, including those which had been mentored by Bragg for instance Max Perutz, Frances Crick and James Watson, about the impact of Lawrence's work on the world. This short, silent, excerpt is taken from the documentary possibly featuring one of Lawrence's grandchildren.

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