Accounts Quote by William Lawrence Bragg

X-Ray crystallography is nowadays an accurate and rapid method of determining conformation in the crystal lattice, which conformation usually corresponds to the preferred conformation…

— Anonymous

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure…

— Dorothy Hodgkin

The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so the credit…

— Henry Moseley

For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ…

— Louis de Broglie

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis…

— Aaron Klug

I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in…

— Dorothy Hodgkin

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

— Robert Huber

I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible to look at much larger structures with much smaller crystals.

— Gregory Petsko

In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from…

— Martin Ryle

When X-rays traverse matter of any kind, this matter becomes a source of a radiation similar in character to that of the primary radiation…

— Charles Glover Barkla

[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to…

— Walead Beshty