Charles Glover Barkla

Charles Barkla
Barkla in 1917
Born
Charles Glover Barkla

(1877-06-07)7 June 1877[1]
Widnes, Lancashire, England
Died23 October 1944(1944-10-23) (aged 67)
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity College Liverpool
Trinity College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge
Known forX-ray scattering
X-ray spectroscopy
Characteristic X-ray
AwardsNobel Prize in Physics (1917)
Hughes Medal (1917)
Bakerian Medal (1916)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1912)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
University of Liverpool
King's College London
University of Edinburgh
Academic advisorsJ. J. Thomson
Oliver Lodge

Charles Glover Barkla FRS[2] FRSE (7 June 1877 – 23 October 1944) was a British physicist, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work in X-ray spectroscopy and related areas in the study of X-rays (Roentgen rays).[3]

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  2. ^ Allen, H. S. (1947). "Charles Glover Barkla. 1877-1944". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (15): 341–366. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1947.0004. JSTOR 769087. S2CID 85334546.
  3. ^ Shampo, M. A.; Kyle, R. A. (1993). "Charles Barkla--Nobel Laureate". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 68 (12): 1176. doi:10.1016/s0025-6196(12)60068-8. PMID 8246619.

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