Won Matteucci Medal (2010).
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Henry Moseley
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number. This stemmed from his development of Moseley's law in X-ray spectra.
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science · English physicist (1887–1915) · physicist · engineer · chemist · also Henry Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley, Moseley
Born 23 November 1887 · Died 10 August 1915 · Q310759
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1962· 1 entry
That Rutherford's work "was not taken seriously at all" and that the "great change came from Moseley
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1915· 1 entry
Died 1915-08-10.
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1913· 1 entry
Moseley observed and measured the X-ray spectra of various chemical elements (mostly metals) that were found by the method of diffraction through crystals
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1912· 1 entry
Moseley showed that high potentials were attainable from a radioactive source of radium, thereby inventing the first atomic battery, though he was unable to produce the 1MV necessary to stop the particles
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1910· 1 entry
Moseley became a demonstrator in physics at the University of Manchester, was elected to membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 9 May 1911, and was under the supervision of Ernest Rutherford
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1906· 2 entries
Won the chemistry and physics prizes at Eton
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Moseley enrolled at the University of Oxford as an undergraduate student of Trinity College, Oxford, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-11-23.
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