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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Glover Barkla has received more than 164,150 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Charles Glover Barkla is the 80th most popular physicist (up from 129th in 2019), the 228th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 408th in 2019) and the 14th 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 80 out of 851. Before him are Lawrence Bragg, Ernest Lawrence, Louis de Broglie, Mikhail Lomonosov, Manne Siegbahn, and C. F. Powell. After him are Percy Williams Bridgman, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, John Bardeen, Hans Bethe, Victor Francis Hess, and Albert A. Michelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Charles Glover Barkla ranks 5. Before him are Hermann Hesse, Isadora Duncan, Felix Dzerzhinsky, and Wilhelm Frick. After him are Joan Gamper, Frederick Soddy, Muhammad Iqbal, Francis William Aston, Heinrich Otto Wieland, G. H. Hardy, and Louis Renault. Among people deceased in 1944, Charles Glover Barkla ranks 15. Before him are Abdulmejid II, William James Sidis, Reza Shah, Günther von Kluge, Richard Sorge, and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. After him are Michael Wittmann, Alexis Carrel, Marc Bloch, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Ludwig Beck, and Ernst Thälmann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Glover Barkla ranks 228 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Newcomen (1663), Robert Brown (1773), Laurence Olivier (1907), Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (1901), Alcuin (735), and James Hunt (1947). After him are Stan Laurel (1890), Clement Attlee (1883), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Harold Godwinson (1022), Syd Barrett (1946), and Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Charles Glover Barkla ranks 14. Before him are J. J. Thomson (1856), William Gilbert (1544), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), Thomas Young (1773), James Chadwick (1891), and C. F. Powell (1903). After him are Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Peter Higgs (1929), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), and Roger Penrose (1931).

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