Charles Glover Barkla

Charles Glover Barkla FRS FRSE
Barkla in 1917
Born	(1877-06-07)7 June 1877[1] Widnes, Lancashire, England
Died	23 October 1944(1944-10-23) (aged 67) Edinburgh, Scotland
Alma mater	University College Liverpool Trinity College, Cambridge King's College, Cambridge (BA, 1903; MA, 1907)
Known for	Discovering characteristic X-rays (1909)
Spouse	Mary Esther Cowell ​ (m. 1907)​
Children	3
Awards	FRS (1912) Bakerian Medal (1916) Nobel Prize in Physics (1917) Hughes Medal (1917)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Edinburgh (1913–1944)
Academic advisors	Oliver Lodge J. J. Thomson

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.^[2]