Charles Glover Barkla
Charles Glover Barkla (
June 7,
1877 ÃÂÃÂ
October 23,
1944) was an English physicist. He was professor of natural philosophy at Edinburgh from 1913. For his discovery of the characteristic X rays of elements he received the 1917
Nobel Prize in
physics. He evolved the laws of X-ray scattering and the laws governing the transmission of X rays through matter and excitation of secondary rays.
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