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BRAGG, Sir William Henry (1862-1942). Physicist, discoverer of X-ray crystallography.
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Worthington, 1 page 8vo on black-edged paper, Watlands, Chuddingfold, 14 September 1929. Thanking Mrs Worthington for what was apparently a letter of sympathy on the death of his wife ('It is just what she would most have wished to hear.').

In 1915 Bragg had shared the Nobel prize with his son (William, later Sir William) Lawrence Bragg.
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