Robert Henry Bragg, Jr.

Robert Henry “Pete” Bragg Jr. (August 11, 1919 – October 2, 2017), was a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the UC Berkeley College of Engineering.

Early life and education Bragg Jr. was born in Jacksonville, Florida on August 11, 1919 to Robert Henry Bragg and Lily Camille MacFarland.

After his 2 years at Woodrow Wilson Junior College, Bragg had served in the military during World War II. While in the military, Bragg had gotten accepted to the Army Specialized Training Program, allowing him to continue his studies at Rhode Island State College prior to the program's eventual shutdown.

Bragg earned a BS degree in 1949 Bragg later worked in the solid-state physics department of the Armor Research Foundation at IIT while working underneath mentor Leonid V. Azaroff for his doctoral studies. and he also became a principal investigator at the Materials and Molecular Division at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

While at Berkeley, Bragg served on the policy advisory board of the Black Studies program and managed the Chancellor's Fellowship Program providing opportunities for minority faculty. At the time he was one of six black faculty members.

In retirement, Bragg was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to conduct research at the University of Ife in Nigeria in 1992, and developed an exhibit for the Museum of African American Technology in Oakland. In 1995, Bragg became a fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists.

He was not related to the British Bragg family of scientists.