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On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays we use the wave theory; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays we think in streams of flying energy quanta or corpuscles.

William Henry Bragg

The dividing line between the wave or particle nature of matter and radiation is the moment 'Now' As this moment steadily advances through time it coagulates a wavy future into a particle past.

William Henry Bragg

Light, properly so called, is only a narrowly defined part of a far greater phenomenon, that of radiation in general.... The lengths of [visible] light waves fall between close limits; but the rules of wave motion apply to the infinitesimal waves of X-rays on one hand and to the long radio waves on the other.

William Henry Bragg

William Henry Bragg

William Henry Bragg

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Born: July 2, 1862

Died: March 12, 1942 (aged 79)

Bio: Sir William Henry Bragg was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman, and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg - the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Known for:

Concerning the Nature of Things (1925)
Studies in radioactivity (1912)
The World of Sound (1920)
X Rays and Crystal Structure (1915)

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