Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
|Died||10 October 1915 (aged 27)|
|Alma mater||Trinity College, University of Oxford|
University of Manchester
|Known for||Atomic Number, Moseley's Law|
Moseley worked on many theories about the atomic number. This soon became known as Moseley's law in X-ray spectra. Moseley's Law helped prove many ideas in chemistry by organizing the chemical elements of the periodic table of the elements in a quite logical order based on their physics.
Further reading[change | change source]
- Heilbron, John L. (1974). H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-02375-7.
- Jaffe, Bernard (1971). Moseley and the Numbering of the Elements. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books.