Charles Barkla, English Physicist

Charles Glover Barkla (June 7, 1877 - October 23, 1944) was an English physicist. J.J. Thompson and Oliver Lodge were his doctoral advisors. In 1913 he was appointed a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, a position that he held until his death. Barkla made significant progress in developing and refining the laws of X-ray scattering, X-ray spectroscopy, the principles governing the transmission of X-rays through matter, and especially the principles of the excitation of secondary X-rays. For his discovery of the characteristic X-rays of elements, Barkla was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917. He died in 1944 at the age of 67

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