At that time, the wave model of light — specifically, the Maxwell theory of electromagnetic radiation — was well accepted among scientists, and experiments by Charles Glover Barkla showed that X-rays exhibited phenomena associated with electromagnetic waves, including transverse polarization and spectral lines akin to those observed in the visible wavelengths.

* Physics – Charles Glover Barkla

* June 7 – Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1944 )

The Australian collection includes works by Charles Blackman, John Brack, Arthur Boyd, Louis Buvelot, Rupert Bunny, Nicholas Chevalier, Charles Conder, David Davies, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, E. Phillips Fox, John Glover, Eugene von Guerard, Hans Heysen, George W. Lambert, Sydney Long, John Longstaff, Frederick McCubbin, Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Margaret Preston, Hugh Ramsay, Tom Roberts, John Russell, Grace Cossington Smith, Arthur Streeton, Fred Williams and others.

Glover, Hibbert Newton, John Cox Gawler, Robert Polwhele, Charles Ottley Groom Napier, John Pym Yeatman, Herbert Aldersmith, William Carpenter, Protheroe Smith, Thomas Stratton, Elieser Bassin, William H. Poole, Thomas Rosling Howlett, Frederick Charles Danvers, Charles Piazzi Smyth, George Moore, C. A. L. Totten, Edward Wheeler Bird, Moses Margoliouth, Robert Govett, Jonathan Titcomb, John Leyland Feilden, Marcus Blake Brownrigg and Alexander Beaufort Grimaldi.

* " The Rose of Tralee " w. C. Mordaunt Spencer m. Charles W. Glover

-Barkla, Charles Glover

The words of the song are credited to C. ( or E .) Mordaunt Spencer and the music to Charles William Glover, but a story circulated in connection with the festival claims that the song was written by William Pembroke Mulchinock, a wealthy Protestant, out of love for Mary O ' Connor, a poor Catholic maid in service to his parents.

There are six public schools in Milton, including four elementary schools: Collicot, Cunningham, Glover, and Tucker ; one middle school, Charles S. Pierce ; and the Milton High School.

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On top of all of this, Charles Barkla of Great Britain was awarded this Nobel Prize in 1917 for his experimental work in using X-ray spectroscopy in discovering the characteristic X-ray frequencies emitted by the various elements, especially the metals.

* 1906 Charles Barkla discovers that each element has a characteristic X-ray and that the degree of penetration of these X-rays is related to the atomic weight of the element

* Charles Barkla ( Physics, 1917 )

The Nobel laureates include the physician Sir Ronald Ross, physicist Professor Charles Barkla, the physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington, physicist Sir James Chadwick, chemist Sir Robert Robinson, physiologist Professor Har Gobind Khorana, physiologist Professor Rodney Porter and physicist Professor Joseph Rotblat.

* Charles Barkla discovers that each element has a characteristic X-ray and that the degree of penetration of these X-rays is related to the atomic weight of the element.

Little more seems to have been recorded about the life of Charles Barkla.

The lunar crater Barkla was named in the honor of Charles Barkla.

Charles Babbage, FRS ( 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871 ) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS ( 14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875 ) was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day.

Thomas Henry Huxley PC FRS ( 4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895 ) was an English biologist ( anatomist ), known as " Darwin's Bulldog " for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Sir Francis Galton FRS (; 16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911 ), cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician.

Charles Macintosh FRS ( 29 December 1766 – 25 July 1843 ) was a Scottish chemist and inventor of waterproof fabrics.

Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, FRS ( 16 April 1661 – 19 May 1715 ) was an English poet and statesman.

Sir Charles Barry FRS ( 23 May 1795 – 12 May 1860 ) was an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster ( also known as the Houses of Parliament ) in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens.

Charles Burney FRS ( 7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814 ) was an English music historian and father of authors Frances Burney and Sarah Burney.

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope aka Charles Mahon, 3rd Earl Stanhope FRS ( 3 August 1753 – 15 December 1816 ) was a British statesman and scientist.

John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer PC, FRS ( 30 May 1782-1 October 1845 ), styled Viscount Althorp from 1783 to 1834, was a British statesman.

Charles Burney, Junior FRS, DD ( born at Lynn Regis, Norfolk December 4, 1757, died at Deptford, then in Kent, on December 28, 1817 ) was an English classical scholar, schoolmaster and clergyman.

Sir Frederic Charles Bartlett FRS ( 20 October 1886 – 30 September 1969 ) was a British psychologist and the first professor of experimental psychology at the University of Cambridge.

Field Marshal Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 3rd Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Aubigny, KG, PC, FRS ( 22 February 1735 – 29 December 1806 ), styled Earl of March until 1750, was a British politician and office holder noteworthy for his advanced views on the issue of parliamentary reform.

Charles Philip Yorke PC, FRS, FSA ( 12 March 1764 – 13 March 1834 ), was a British politician.

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS ( 13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931 ) was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine.

Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg PC FRS ( 26 October 1778 – 23 April 1866 ) was a Scottish politician and colonial administrator.

Sir Charles Wilkins, KH, FRS ( 1749 – May 13, 1836 ), was an English typographer and Orientalist, notable as the first translator of Bhagavad Gita into English, and as the creator of the first Bengali typeface.

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS ( 28 July 1674 – 28 August 1731 ) was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences.

Charles Tate Regan FRS ( 1 February 1878 – 12 January 1943 ) was a British ichthyologist, working mainly around the beginning of the 20th century.

Sir Horace Darwin, KBE, FRS ( 13 May 1851 – 29 September 1928 ), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer.

Sir Francis " Frank " Darwin, FRS ( 16 August 1848 – 19 September 1925 ), a son of the British naturalist and scientist Charles Darwin, followed his father into botany.

Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester PC, FRS ( 14 October 1757 – 8 May 1829 ) was a British barrister and statesman.

Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther ( 3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914 ), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.