Light is a Messenger : The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg

Light is a Messenger is the first biography of Sir Lawrence Bragg, the youngest person ever to win a Nobel Prize. Bragg won the Nobel Prize for discovering how to use X-Rays to determine the atomic structures of crystals and molecules. He was director of the research unit in which James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA.

Dr Graeme Kenneth Hunter, School of Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5C1, Canada, Tel. no: 519 661 2185, Fax no: 519 850 2459, E-mail address: Graeme.hunter@fmd.uwo.ca Graduated from the University of Glasgow with first class honours in Biochemistry in 1976, and completed Ph.D. in Biochemistry there four years later. Post-doctoral research at Stanford University, the University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. Appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Oral Biology at the University of Alberta in 1988. In 1991, took up the position of Associate Professor in the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Western Ontario, promoted to Professor in 2000. Since 1996, has acted as Assistant Director for Research in the School of Dentistry. Research interests are biomineralization and the history and philosophy of science.