6 Youngest Nobel Prize Winners

2. William Lawrence Bragg

Age: 25

Date of Birth: March 31st, 1890

Award: Nobel Prize in Physics, 1915

William Lawrence Bragg was, until last year, the youngest ever Nobel Prize Winner, winning it jointly with his father (William Henry Bragg), at the age of just 25. The award came for ‘services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-ray’ and you may have heard of ‘Bragg’s law’ – a scientific explanation of x-ray diffraction. Bragg was originally born in Adelaide, Australia but spent most of his life in Britain. He went on to work at the University of Cambridge, and was Cavendish Professor at the time of important discoveries concerning the nature of DNA. Bragg died in 1971, at the age of 81.