Charles Glover Barkla

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Charles Glover Barkla

Charles Glover Barkla (born June 7, 1877 in Widnes , Lancashire , † October 23, 1944 in Edinburgh ) was a British physicist . In 1917 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics .

Life

After attending the Liverpool Institute in 1894, Charles Barkla began studying mathematics and physics at University College Liverpool , then part of Victoria University . After graduating in physics in 1898, he received his PhD in 1899 and received a research fellowship at the Cavendish Laboratory at Trinity College , Cambridge . However, he moved to King's College a year later and returned to Liverpool in 1902. In 1909 he took over a professorship for physics at the University of London and in 1913 switched to the chair for natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh , which he held until his death. Here belonged Janette Dunlop to his research students, with whom he 1916 the article "Note on the scattering of x-rays and atomic structure" published.

Barkla married Mary Esther Cowell in 1907 and had two sons and a daughter. The moon crater Barkla is named after him.

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Barkla has been working with X-rays since 1902 . He discovered the characteristic spectral lines of the chemical elements in the X-ray range as well as the fluorescence component of the scattered radiation. He also discovered the polarization of X-rays, which was of great importance for the classification of X-rays as electromagnetic waves . In 1917 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for his discovery of the characteristic X-ray radiation of the elements”.

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SURNAME Barkla, Charles Glover
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist and Nobel Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Widnes
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1944
Place of death Edinburgh