William Henry Bragg & The University of Adelaide

Recorded Lectures

1. Modern scientific discoveries. Undated. ca.1935-1939
2. The application of x-rays to the study of the crystalline structure of materials, 18 November 1927
3. Science and community, 14 November 1939
4. What is sound? Undated
5. Echoes. Undated
6. W.H. Bragg in an instructional video, 6 December 1934

Anecdotal Accounts

1. Reminiscences of Bragg’s early research
William Ernest Cooke (1863-1947) was born in Adelaide and was later Western Australia’s first Government Astronomer. This letter to Sir Kerr Grant contains his memories of W.H. Bragg’s ‘awakening’ and early interest in research.

2. Judell, L.M.W. The earliest wireless communication in Adelaide
A draft article on Bragg’s early wireless experiments in Adelaide, sent to Sir Kerr Grant for review

3. W. Lawrence Bragg discusses his father, from the BBC documentary, "Fifty Years a Winner".

Publications

1. ‘On the absorption of alpha rays and on the classification of alpha rays from radium,’ Philosophical Magazine 8 (1904), 719–725.
2. Studies in Radioactivity. 1912
3. Nature’s architecture: Being the Earl Grey Memorial Lecture delivered in the King’s Hall, Armstrong College, on the 4th February, 1922
4. The world of sound. 1920. Six lectures delivered before a Juvenile Auditory at the Royal Institution, Christmas, 1919
5. The crystalline state – The Romanes Lecture for 1925. Oxford, 1925
6. Concerning the nature of things; six lectures delivered at the Royal institution.1925. The atoms of which things are made; The nature of gases; The nature of liquids; The nature of crystals: diamond; The nature of crystals: ice and snow; The nature of crystals: metals
7. Old Trades and New Knowledge.1926
8. An introduction to crystal analysis. 1928
9. The universe of light. 1933

References

1. S. G. Tomlin, ‘Bragg, Sir William Henry (1862–1942)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bragg-sir-william-henry-5336/text9021, accessed 15 November 2012.
2. John Jenkin, The Bragg Family in Adelaide: A Pictorial Celebration, 1986.
3. V. A. Edgeloe, 1993, Servants of Distinction: Leadership in a young university 1875-1925, The University of Adelaide Foundation, Adelaide.
4. Some reflections on "physics at the University of Adelaide". E.H. Medlin, 1986. Available at Rare Books & Special Collections, University Oversize Collection, RC 530.09 B813 4.
5. The Bragg centenary celebrations, 1962.

6. William H. (Henry) Bragg and William L. (Lawrence) Bragg: the research records of John Jenkin, 1914-2010, http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/mss/bragg/

Additional References

1. University of Adelaide Archives, Series 163 University Newscuttings Books [1881-1977]
2. University of Adelaide Archives, Series 169 Registrar's Department Correspondence [1872-1923]
3. University of Adelaide Archives, Series 200 Registrar's Correspondence Files [Dockets] [1886-1960]
4. University of Adelaide Archives, Series 1005 University Public Lectures and Addresses [1876-2001]
5. University of Adelaide Archives, Series 1151 University Photographs & Glass Slides [1860-1993]