Henry Moseley
English physicist
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- Scientists rank#143
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- Fame58.7
- Momentum8.4
- Scientists rank#143
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Lived 1887–1915, aged 28United Kingdom
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Updated 2026-06-09
He gave the periodic table its organizing principle — atomic number as physical law, not just a counting trick — then died in a trench at Gallipoli at 27, before the Nobel committee could catch up.
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Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was born on 23 November 1887. His development of Moseley's law in X-ray spectra justified the concept of atomic number from physical laws, providing the first experimental evidence for Niels Bohr's theory beyond the hydrogen spectrum and refining the Rutherford–van den Broek model of the nucleus. When World War I broke out, he left his research at the University of Oxford to volunteer for the Royal Engineers. Assigned as a telecommunications officer with the British Empire force that invaded Gallipoli in April 1915, he was shot and killed during the battle on 10 Aug…
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