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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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