Etymology

Bragg scattering

Today it means: the diffraction phenomenon exhibited by a crystal bombarded with X-rays in such a way that each plane of the crystal lattice acts as a reflector. Full definition →

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Named after William Lawrence Bragg and his father William Henry Bragg, who proposed the idea in 1913.

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