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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Moseley has received more than 1,380,696 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Henry Moseley is the 158th most popular physicist (down from 105th in 2019), the 409th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 336th in 2019) and the 22nd 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

Among physicists, Henry Moseley ranks 158 out of 851. Before him are Albert Fert, Hans Geiger, Maurice Wilkins, Arthur Compton, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, and Hugh Everett III. After him are Nicolaas Bloembergen, Klaus Fuchs, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Louis Néel, Yang Chen-Ning, and Kai Siegbahn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Henry Moseley ranks 25. Before him are Heitor Villa-Lobos, Saint-John Perse, Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, James B. Sumner, Felix Yusupov, and Georg Trakl. After him are Georgia O'Keeffe, Ruth Benedict, Leopold Ružička, Nadia Boulanger, Wolfgang Köhler, and Nikolai Vavilov. Among people deceased in 1915, Henry Moseley ranks 6. Before him are Alois Alzheimer, Alexander Scriabin, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Paul Ehrlich, and Porfirio Díaz. After him are Ellen G. White, Jean-Henri Fabre, Sergei Witte, Clara Immerwahr, Leo Frank, and Wilhelm Windelband.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Moseley ranks 409 out of 8,785. Before him are Jackie Stewart (1939), Arthur Eddington (1882), Peter Brook (1925), Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (1863), Edgar the Peaceful (943), and Charles Lyell (1797). After him are Bob Hoskins (1942), Anne Hathaway (1556), John Wesley (1703), Donald Winnicott (1896), Robert Plant (1948), and Thomas Cook (1808).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Henry Moseley ranks 22. Before him are Peter Higgs (1929), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Roger Penrose (1931), and William Henry Bragg (1862). After him are David J. Thouless (1934), William Shockley (1910), John Kendrew (1917), Patrick Blackett (1897), Brian Josephson (1940), and Charles Wheatstone (1802).

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