biography
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Moseley, Harry
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popular name of Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
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pronunciation:
[mohzlee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1887–1915)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Weymouth, Dorset, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford, then worked under Ernest Rutherford at Manchester University (1910–14). He worked on radioactivity, determining by means of X-ray spectra the atomic numbers of the elements (Moseley's law), the basis of 20th-c atomic and nuclear physics. He also predicted the unknown element hafnium. He was killed in action in Turkey at the age of 27. |
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