Henry Moseley Summary

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley 1887-1915 English physicist who derived the relationship between an element's x-ray wavelengths and atomic number—Moseley's Law. This allowed him to as... Read more

One of the truly great tragedies in the history of science was the death of Henry G. J. Moseley on August 10, 1915, in Gallipoli, Turkey. Moseley had enlisted in the Royal Engineers at the outbreak of... Read more

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley's great contribution to science was his ordering of the elements by examining their X-ray spectra, thus creating the periodic table. His work, which ranks among the most pr... Read more