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Barkla

American  
[bahrk-luh] / ˈbɑrk lə /

noun

  1. Charles Glover 1877–1944, English physicist: Nobel Prize 1917.

Barkla British  
/ ˈbɑːklə /

noun

  1. Charles Glover . 1877–1944, British physicist, noted for his work on X-rays: Nobel prize for physics 1917

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

From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Poincaré, Lucien

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