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Charles Glover Barkla
English physicist (1877-1944)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 June 1877
- Died
- 23 October 1944
- Place of birth
- Widnes
- Place of death
- Edinburgh
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Barkla
- Spouse
- Mary Esther Cowell
- Field of work
- atomic physics, nuclear physics
- Occupation
- physicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, Nobel Prize in Physics, Hughes Medal, Royal Society Bakerian Medal
- described by source
- Svensk uppslagsbok, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Oliver Lodge
- doctoral student
- Robert Dunbar
- employer
- King's College London, University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Edinburgh
- interested in
- physics
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Society
- name in native language
- Charles Glover Barkla
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- notable work
- X-ray crystallography
- participant in
- 3rd Solvay Conference on Physics
- residence
- United Kingdom
- student of
- Joseph John Thomson
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