Charles Glover Barkla

Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist and university teacher born in Widnes in 1877. He worked in the fields of atomic and nuclear physics, with notable work in X-ray crystallography. Barkla was educated at Trinity College, the University of Liverpool, the University of Cambridge, and King's College. He studied under Oliver Lodge and J. J. Thomson.

He held positions at King's College London, the University of Cambridge, the University of London, and the University of Edinburgh. Barkla was a member of the Royal Society and received the Hughes Medal, the Royal Society Bakerian Medal, and the Nobel Prize in Physics. He died in Edinburgh in 1944.