Henry Moseley
Henry Moseley
Moseley in 1914
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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.
Born
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley 23 November 1887 Weymouth, Dorset, England
Died
10 August 1915 (aged 27) Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire
Nationality
English
Known for
Atomic number, Moseley's law
Fields
Physics, chemistry
Alma mater
Trinity College, Oxford University of Manchester
Awards
Matteucci Medal (1919)
adultbasic
Britain
Cause of death
Killed in action
Citizenship
British
Education
Summer Fields School Eton College
era
1800+
Influences
Ernest Rutherford