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Charles Glover Barkla
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| Charles Glover Barkla | |
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 Charles Glover Barkla (1877 - 1944) |
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| Born | June 27, 1877 Widnes, Cheshire, England |
| Died | October 23, 1944 (aged 67) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Residence | UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Field | Physics |
| Institutions | Cambridge University Liverpool University King's College London University of Edinburgh |
| Alma mater | University College Liverpool Cambridge University |
| Academic advisor | J.J. Thompson Oliver Lodge |
| Known for | X-ray scattering |
| Notable prizes |  Nobel Prize in Physics (1917) |
Charles Glover Barkla (June 27, 1877 – October 23, 1944) was a British physicist.
He was born in Widnes and studied at the Liverpool Institute and Liverpool University. In 1913, after having worked at the universities of Cambridge, Liverpool and King's College London he was appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, a position he held until his death. He married Mary Esther Cowell in 1907.
He evolved the laws of X-ray scattering and the laws governing the transmission of X-rays through matter and excitation of secondary rays. For his discovery of the characteristic X-rays of elements, he received the 1917 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was awarded the Royal Society's Hughes Medal that same year.
The lunar crater Barkla was named in his honour and a commemorative plaque is in the vicinity of the Canongate, near the Faculty of Education Buildings, University of Edinburgh.
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Wilhelm Röntgen (1901) • Hendrik Lorentz / Pieter Zeeman (1902) • Henri Becquerel / Pierre Curie / Marie Curie (1903) • Lord Rayleigh (1904) • Philipp Lenard (1905) • J. J. Thomson (1906) • Albert Michelson (1907) • Gabriel Lippmann (1908) • Guglielmo Marconi / Ferdinand Braun (1909) • Johannes van der Waals (1910) • Wilhelm Wien (1911) • Gustaf Dalén (1912) • Kamerlingh Onnes (1913) • Max von Laue (1914) • W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915) • Charles Barkla (1917) • Max Planck (1918) • Johannes Stark (1919) • Charles Guillaume (1920) • Albert Einstein (1921) • Niels Bohr (1922) • Robert Millikan (1923) • Manne Siegbahn (1924) • James Franck / Gustav Hertz (1925) |
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| NAME | Barkla, Charles Glover |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Widnes, Cheshire, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1944 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Edinburgh, Scotland |
Categories: United Kingdom physicist stubs | 1877 births | 1944 deaths | People from Widnes | Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge | Fellows of the Royal Society | Nobel laureates in Physics | British Nobel laureates | British physicists | Academics of King's College London | Academics of the University of Edinburgh