biography
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Barkla, Charles Glover
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pronunciation:
[bah(r)kla]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1944)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Widnes, Cheshire, NW England, UK. He became professor of physics at London (1909–13) and of natural philosophy at Edinburgh (1913–44). He conducted notable research into X-rays and other short-wave emissions, and was awarded the 1917 Nobel Prize for Physics. |
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