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Barkla

[ bahrk-luh ]

noun

  1. Charles Glov·er [gluhv, -er], 1877–1944, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1917.


Barkla

/ ˈbɑːklə /

noun

  1. BarklaCharles Glover18771944MBritishSCIENCE: physicist Charles Glover . 1877–1944, British physicist, noted for his work on X-rays: Nobel prize for physics 1917
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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All Bodies Are Good Bodies, read aloud by Charlotte Barkla A book which is about celebrating awesome incredible bodies that do unbelievable things.

In the early twentieth century, physicists including Charles Glover Barkla and Ernest Rutherford noticed that the central charge of an atom is roughly half of its atomic weight.

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In Jack Barkla's stage design, Temple's home looks like a high-tech waiting room outside the Second Circle of Hell.

The X-Rays: Röntgen's discovery—Properties of X-rays—Not homogeneous—Rutherford and M'Clung's experiments on energy corresponding to—Barkla's experiments on polarisation of—Their speed that of light—Are they merely ultra-violet?—Stokes and Wiechert's theory of independent pulsations generally preferred—J.J.

Dr Barkla has shown also that they can manifest true polarization.

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