Science · 1877–1944

Charles Glover Barkla

British Nobel Prize-winning physicist who studied X-rays

Did you know?He was an accomplished singer and a member of the King's College choir during his time at university.

Charles Glover Barkla (7 June 1877 – 23 October 1944) was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his discovery of characteristic X-rays.

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