Awarded by President of Poland the National Medal of Polish Education for services to the Oxford Colleges Hospitality Scheme for Polish Scholars in 1992.
Awarded the Czochralski Medal by the European Materials Research Society in 2012.
Film Ethical Science of Kathleen Lonsdale for the Royal Society 2025
Spriggs Award of the American Ceramic Society 2015.
Vice President of the International Union of Crystallography 2014-2017.
President of the British Crystallographic Association 1996-2000.
I retired officially in 2010 but continue to engage in research and some teaching for Oxford Colleges and the Department of Physics. I am Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College Oxford.
In 1972 I derived a system ( (1972). , 3384-3392) to describe the tilting of octahedra in perovskites, and this work is now recognised internationally. 3D printed models can be downloaded here .
In 1986 I set up with J. Cosier a partnership, Oxford Cryosystems, to market low-temperature apparatus for crystallographers. This product is the market lead and is the world's almost exclusive manufacturer of such equipment.
I am currently General Editor of the International Newsletter of the International Union of Crystallography ()
Lecture on crystallography given at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, January 2019: see
Bragg Lecture at the Royal Institution London: see
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My latest books:
2021 "A Journey into Reciprocal Space: A Crystallographer's Perspective" 2nd Edition
2016 "A Very Short Introduction to Crystallography" (OUP)
2015 "Crystal Clear: the Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg" (OUP)
2013: "Space Groups for Solid State Scientists", 3rd Edition. (Academic)
Our paper The missing boundary in the phase diagram of PbZr1-xTixO3 . Nature Comms., 5, 5231 (2014) has been awarded the Spriggs Prize by the American Ceramic Society.
In August 2014 I was elected Vice President of the International Union of Crystallography
Much of my time is now spent in bringing the subject of Crystallography to public attention, as it is relatively unknown. Here are some relevant examples:
Film on the Legacy of the Braggs: see
Catalogue of the Two Braggs Exhibition 2013 2014
Podcast for Royal Society of Chemistry
Filmed interview for Welcome Trust 2014
Press Release for IUCr International Year () 2013
Interview for Inside Science BBC Radio 4 () 2013
Filmed for Diamond Light Source Video 2013
“The Two Braggs” public lecture at Oxford Museum of History of Science 2013
“Oxford Cryosystems” with Kat Orman, BBC Radio Oxford 2013
Organized “The Two Braggs Exhibition” at Warwick University 2013
“Bragg on the Braggs” with Melvyn Bragg BBC Radio 4 () 2013
Demonstrated at Big Bang Fair, London 2013
“Crystal World”, Teacher’s conference for IOP Oxford 2012
Crystallography: “In Our Time”, BBC Radio 4 () 2012
“Crystal World” open lecture for Oxford Science week 2012