Henry Moseley
English physicist · United Kingdom · Scientists · Lived 1887 to 1915 · aged 27
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Something wrong?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 Moseley (1887-1915)
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Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley, University of Manchester
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Portrait of Henry G.J. Moseley, 1887-1915, in lab holding a glass globe, from Nature magazine (cropped)Awards
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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 August 1915. He was 27, and experts have speculated he would otherwise have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1916.
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