William Henry Bragg (Nobel)

William Henry Bragg, an English physicist, chemist and mathematician, uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence for their collaborative research of crystal structure observations by means of X-rays. Catastrophe struck Bragg at just 7 years of age when his mother died, resulting in his upbringing by his uncle. Despite this adversity, he managed to pursue a higher education, developing interests inf the field of electromagnetism. He later demonstrated, before a group of medical professionals, how to use X-rays to reveal otherwise invisible structures. Here is a quote where Bragg surmises how religion and science can work together: "From religion comes a man's purpose; from science, his power to achieve it. Sometimes people ask if religion and science are not opposed to one another. They are: in the sense that the thumb and fingers of my hands are opposed to one another. It is an opposition by means of which anything can be grasped."