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Physics to Bragg about

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The first joint biography of the father and son who developed X-ray crystallography.

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  1. Jeff Hughes is senior lecturer at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. He is author of The Manhattan Project: Big Science and the Atom Bomb.,

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