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Charles Glover Barkla

Physics

Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his discovery of the characteristic X-rays that different elements produce when exposed to X-ray radiation, work that advanced understanding of atomic structure.

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