Charles Barkla was one of the first scientists to help reveal the true nature of X-rays and, through later applications of his findings, the nature of the atom. He was born and educated in Liverpool, England, and received his bachelor's in physics from...

(born June 7, 1877, Widnes, Lancashire, Eng.—died Oct. 23, 1944, Edinburgh, Scot.) British physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1917 for his work on X-ray scattering, which occurs when X rays pass through a material and are...

1877-1944 English physicist noted for his research and important discoveries concerning x-rays. He was awarded the 1917 Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering that x-ray scattering depends on the molecular weight of gases through which it passes...

Charles Glover Barkla (June 27, 1877 – October 23, 1944) was a British physicist. He was born in Widnes and studied at the Liverpool Institute and Liverpool University. In 1913, after having worked at the universities of Cambridge, Liverpool and...

KETTERING -- Former Cox Enterprises chief editor Charles Edward Glover, 79, was bid farewell Thursday from Central Christian Church, where he had been a worship lay leader and elder during his years as a Dayton newspaper executive. Familiar old hymns, including In the...

ATLANTA -- Charles E. Glover, whose career took him from newspaper reporting in Dayton to a post as editor-in-chief at one of America's top media companies, Cox Enterprises, died Saturday afternoon-at Vitas Haven House hospice, in Atlanta. Mr. Glover was 79. "Chuck Glover...