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Henry Moseley

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Also known as Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley

English physicist

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Henry Moseley was a male person from the United States. He was born on November 23, 1887, and died on August 10, 1915. His musical work is categorized under the genres of alternative country, country, and country rock.

He is associated with five works. His profile is referenced by 129 other encyclopedia articles.

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Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (/ˈmoʊzli/; 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. That theory refined Ernest Rutherford's and Antonius van den Broek's model, which proposed that the atom contains in its nucleus a number of positive nuclear charges that is equal to its (atomic) number in the periodic table.

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