# Charles Glover Barkla (@charles-glover-barkla)

Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist whose studies of characteristic X-rays clarified the relation between radiation and chemical elements.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Charles Glover Barkla's public record._

## Topics

- [Historical context](/@charles-glover-barkla/historical-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Influence](/@charles-glover-barkla/influence.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Major work](/@charles-glover-barkla/major-work.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1917/barkla/biographical/
- blog: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Glover-Barkla
- blog: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/physics/about-us/history/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "charles-glover-barkla", "question": "…"}`.