Person
Charles Glover Barkla
1877 – 1944 · aged 67
English physicist (1877-1944)
- Born
- 7 Jun 1877 · Widnes
- Died
- 23 Oct 1944 · Edinburgh
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- 7 Jun 1877BornBorn in Widnes
- 1916AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
- 1917AwardHughes Medal
- 1917AwardNobel Prize in Physics
- 23 Oct 1944DiedDied in Edinburgh
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1877 – 1944).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
Biography
Charles Glover Barkla (7 June 1877 – 23 October 1944) was a British physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1917 for his discovery of characteristic X-rays.
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