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Henry Moseley

Henry Moseley
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Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley 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.

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  1. Charles Galton DarwinDecember 18, 1887 – December 31, 1962
  2. Edward AndradeDecember 27, 1887 – June 6, 1971
  3. Hedwig KohnApril 5, 1887 – March 26, 1964
  4. Henry Moseley (this page)November 23, 1887 – August 10, 1915
  5. James Batcheller SumnerNovember 19, 1887 – August 12, 1955
  6. Leopold RužičkaSeptember 13, 1887 – September 26, 1976

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