Primo Levi, William Henry Bragg and the atomic theory of matter

Sir W. H. Bragg was an outstanding teacher capable of exciting the minds of intelligent young people and addressing them to science in general and chemistry in particular. Both Primo Levi, a well known Italian writer, and Dorothy Hodgkin, Nobel laureate for her pioneering work in crystallography, decided that they would become chemists after reading, at the age of sixteen, Bragg's book Concerning the Nature of Things.