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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 1,328,868 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Henry Moseley is the 105th most popular physicist (up from 117th in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 372nd in 2019) and the 19th 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 105 out of 717. Before him are C. V. Raman, Joseph Henry, Hippolyte Fizeau, Alfred Kastler, Joseph von Fraunhofer, and Kip Thorne. After him are George Gamow, Javier Solana, Victor Francis Hess, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, J. Hans D. Jensen, and Edward Victor Appleton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Henry Moseley ranks 23. Before him are Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Juan Gris, Vidkun Quisling, Felix Yusupov, Saint-John Perse, and Chūichi Nagumo. After him are Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ruth Benedict, Georg Trakl, Nikolai Vavilov, and Nadia Boulanger. Among people deceased in 1915, Henry Moseley ranks 5. Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor, Alois Alzheimer, Alexander Scriabin, and Paul Ehrlich. After him are Ellen G. White, Porfirio Díaz, Jean-Henri Fabre, Clara Immerwahr, Sergei Witte, Wilhelm Windelband, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Moseley ranks 336 out of 7,765. Before him are Ian McShane (1942), Rudolf Abel (1903), Gertrude Bell (1868), Anne, Princess Royal (1950), Bartholomew Roberts (1682), and Rod Stewart (1945). After him are William Hogarth (1697), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Enid Blyton (1897), Vivienne Westwood (1941), Ian Gillan (1945), and Marie of Romania (1875).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, Henry Moseley ranks 19. Before him are Roger Penrose (1931), William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Peter Higgs (1929), and William Henry Bragg (1862). After him are Edward Victor Appleton (1892), George Paget Thomson (1892), C. F. Powell (1903), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), William Shockley (1910), and David Brewster (1781).

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