"The purpose of research is to know rather than to accomplish."

Charles Glover Barkla (1877 - 1944)
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About Charles Glover Barkla

Charles Glover Barkla was an English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his work on X-ray scattering. He was born in 1877 in Widnes, Lancashire, England, and studied at the University of Cambridge. Barkla made significant contributions to the field of X-ray spectroscopy and his discoveries helped advance the understanding of atomic structures.

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