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Charles Glover Barkla

1877 - 1944

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Charles Glover Barkla (7 June 1877 – 23 October 1944) was an English physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his discovery of characteristic X-rays. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Glover Barkla is the 66th most popular physicist (up from 80th in 2019), the 190th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 228th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Physicist.

Charles Glover Barkla is most famous for his discovery of the characteristic X-rays emitted by electrons.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Glover Barkla ranks 66 out of 851. Before him are Otto Stern, Leo Szilard, Wolfgang Pauli, Andrei Sakharov, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Max Born. After him are Paul Dirac, Léon Foucault, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Philipp Lenard, Lev Landau, and Frédéric Joliot-Curie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Charles Glover Barkla ranks 4. Before him are Hermann Hesse, Muhammad Iqbal, and Isadora Duncan. After him are Felix Dzerzhinsky, Frederick Soddy, Francis William Aston, Wilhelm Frick, Joan Gamper, Heinrich Otto Wieland, James Jeans, and Frank Marshall. Among people deceased in 1944, Charles Glover Barkla ranks 10. Before him are Piet Mondrian, Romain Rolland, Erwin Rommel, Claus von Stauffenberg, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, and William James Sidis. After him are Abdulmejid II, Günther von Kluge, Richard Sorge, Hilma af Klint, Reza Shah, and Bertha Benz.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Glover Barkla ranks 190 out of 8,785. Before him are Robert Clive (1725), Bon Scott (1946), Terry Pratchett (1948), Alan Hodgkin (1914), Alexander R. Todd (1907), and George Harrison (1943). After him are William of Ockham (1285), Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), Maggie Smith (1934), Victoria, Princess Royal (1840), John Napier (1550), and Paul Dirac (1902).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Charles Glover Barkla ranks 18. Before him are James Clerk Maxwell (1831), William Gilbert (1544), Nevill Francis Mott (1905), David J. Thouless (1934), Brian Josephson (1940), and Patrick Blackett (1897). After him are Paul Dirac (1902), James Chadwick (1891), C. F. Powell (1903), William Henry Bragg (1862), Thomas Young (1773), and Peter Higgs (1929).

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