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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 King's College London he was appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University Of Edinburgh , a position he held until his death. He evolved the laws of X-ray scattering and the laws governing the transmission of X rays through matter and excitation of secondary rays. For his discovery of the characteristic X-ray s of elements he received the 1917 Nobel Prize In Physics . He was awarded the Royal Society 's Hughes Medal that same year. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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