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Henry Moseley

1887 - 1915

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Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (; 23 November 1887 – 10 August 1915) 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. Moseley's law advanced atomic physics, nuclear physics and quantum physics by providing the first experimental evidence in favour of Niels Bohr's theory, aside from the hydrogen atom spectrum which the Bohr theory was designed to reproduce. That theory refined Ernest Rutherford's and Antonius van den Broek's model, which proposed that the atom contains in its nucleus a number of positive nuclear charges that is equal to its (atomic) number in the periodic table. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Moseley is the 152nd most popular physicist (up from 158th in 2019), the 401st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 409th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Physicist.

Henry Moseley is most famous for his discovery of the atomic number of elements. He also discovered that the atomic number is the same as the number of protons in an atom.

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Among physicists, Henry Moseley ranks 152 out of 851. Before him are Kai Siegbahn, Clifford Shull, John Bardeen, Nicolaas Bloembergen, George Paget Thomson, and Walter Houser Brattain. After him are Laura Bassi, John Kendrew, Javier Solana, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Frits Zernike, and Felix Bloch.

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Among people born in 1887, Henry Moseley ranks 23. Before him are Jozef Tiso, Leopold Ružička, Juan Gris, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Leonard Bloomfield, and James B. Sumner. After him are Saint-John Perse, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Nadia Boulanger, Georg Trakl, Chūichi Nagumo, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Among people deceased in 1915, Henry Moseley ranks 5. Before him are Alexander Scriabin, Alois Alzheimer, Paul Ehrlich, and Frederick Winslow Taylor. After him are Porfirio Díaz, Ellen G. White, Jean-Henri Fabre, Sergei Witte, Clara Immerwahr, Charles Tupper, and Wilhelm Windelband.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Moseley ranks 401 out of 8,785. Before him are John Lydon (1956), John Constable (1776), Ian Gillan (1945), Ælfweard of Wessex (904), Daniel Day-Lewis (1957), and Gary Oldman (1958). After him are Claude Rains (1889), John Galsworthy (1867), John Kendrew (1917), Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia (1945), Ian Fleming (1908), and Nigel Farage (1964).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Henry Moseley ranks 26. Before him are James Chadwick (1891), C. F. Powell (1903), William Henry Bragg (1862), Thomas Young (1773), Peter Higgs (1929), and Roger Penrose (1931). After him are John Kendrew (1917), James Jeans (1877), David Brewster (1781), Andrew Huxley (1917), John Cockcroft (1897), and William Shockley (1910).

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