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Stephen Bragg
Stephen Lawrence Bragg (1923–2014) was a British engineer
Stephen Lawrence Bragg
who was Vice Chancellor of Brunel University from 1971-81.[1] He
was the son of Lawrence Bragg and grandson of William Henry Born 17 November 1923
Bragg. Died 14 November 2014
(aged 90)
Nationality United Kingdom
Contents Education University of
Early life, education and career Cambridge

Personal life Occupation engineer, academic

References Employer Rolls-Royce

Brunel University
External links
Known for Bragg-Hawthorne
equation
Early life, education and career Spouse(s) Maureen Roberts
Parent(s) Alice Bragg,
He was born on 17 November 1923 to Lawrence Bragg, physicist, X-
Lawrence Bragg
ray crystallographer and Nobel Prize winner for physics (1915) and
his wife Alice Grace Jenny née Hopkinson.[2]

He studied engineering at the University of Cambridge graduating with an BA in 1945 and an MA in

1949. He went on to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology receiving an SM in 1949.[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 1971 he left Rolls-Royce, three days before it was declared insolvent, and became
Vice Chancellor of Brunel University. In 1981 he returned to Cambridge as director of the Industrial
Cooperation Unit and Fellow of Wolfson College.[1]

Personal life
In 1951 he married Maureen Ann (née Roberts) and they had three sons.

References
1. "Stephen Bragg" (http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/obituaries/article4301489.ece). The Times.
London. 19 December 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2015.(subscription required)
2. Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography" (http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30845). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(online ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/30845. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30845 (https://doi.or

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g/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F30845). Retrieved 29 December 2019. (Subscription or UK public library

membership (https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public) required.)
3. "BRAGG, Stephen Lawrence" (http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U8508).
Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc,online edn, Oxford University
Press, Nov 2015.
4. Squire, William (28 July 2014). University Fundraising in Britain: A Transatlantic Partnership (https://b
ooks.google.com/books?id=pCExBQAAQBAJ&q=stephen+bragg+cambridge&pg=PA9). Matador.
p. 9. ISBN 978-1784620097. Retrieved 3 January 2015.

External links
Map of Stephen Bragg Hall at Brunel (http://www.brunel.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/386372/Bl
ockEStephenBraggHall.pdf) named after him

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