X - X-Ray

Charles Glover Barkla, born in Widnes, made one of England’s earliest breakthroughs in medical science when, between 1903 and 1911, he became the first to discover characteristic secondary X-ray radiation and demonstrated that X-rays could be polarized in a similar manner to light. How X-rays travel and behave. His pioneering work later earned him the 1917 Nobel Prize in Physics, securing his legacy as an influential scientific figure.