Henry Moseley Facts
Henry Moseley Facts
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| Henry G.J. Moseley was born in Weymouth, England. |
| His father, Henry Nottidge Moseley, was a biologist and professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Oxford. |
| Henry Moseley was awarded a King's scholarship to Eton College where in 1906 he won the chemistry and physics prizes. |
| In 1906 he entered Trinity College of the University of Oxford where he received his B.S. in 1910. |
| After graduation Moseley became an assistant to Sir Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester. |
| In 1912 Moseley experimented with radioactive beta particles and invented the first atomic battery. |
| In 1913 using X-ray spectroscopy he discovered Moseley's Law which states that there is a systematic mathematical relationship between the wave lengths of their X-rays and the atomic numbers of the metals used. |
| He was the first to use X-ray spectroscopy to measure the X-ray spectra of metals which was important in the invention of X-ray crystallography. |
| Before his discovery, atomic numbers were believed to be based on the sequence of atomic mass. |
| Moseley's Law correctly predicted the discovery of new elements at the numbers 43, 61, 72 and 75. |
| In early 1914 Moseley resigned from Manchester turned down a job offer to Oxford to enlist in the Royal Engineers. |
| He was serving as technical officer in communications during that Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey when, on 10 August 1915, he was killed by a sniper. |
| Because of Moseley's death, the British government no longer allowed its prominent scientists to serve in combat duty. |
| Moseley was a candidate for the 1916 Nobel Prize but it is not awarded posthumously; the Nobel Prize for Physics and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry were not awarded in 1916. |
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