He was born on 17 November 1923 to Lawrence Bragg, physicist, X-ray crystallographer and Nobel Prize winner for physics (1915) and his wife Alice Grace Jenny née Hopkinson.
[3] He worked for Rolls-Royce between 1951 and 1971, helping develop the Blue Streak missile, and rose to the position of chief scientist, responsible for liaison with universities.
[1][4] Bragg encouraged interactions between academia and industry, and spent five years on the University Grants Committee.
In 1981 he returned to Cambridge as director of the Industrial Cooperation Unit and Fellow of Wolfson College.
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