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  2. Henry Moseley - Wikipedia

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    Henry G. J. Moseley, known to his friends as Harry, [5] was born in Weymouth in Dorset in 1887. His father Henry Nottidge Moseley (1844–1891), who died when Moseley was quite young, was a biologist and also a professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Oxford, who had been a member of the Challenger Expedition.

  3. Moseley's law - Wikipedia

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    Moseley's law is an empirical law concerning the characteristic X-rays emitted by atoms. The law had been discovered and published by the English physicist Henry Moseley in 1913–1914. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Until Moseley's work, "atomic number" was merely an element's place in the periodic table and was not known to be associated with any measurable ...

  4. Henry J. Moseley - Wikipedia

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    Henry Jackson Moseley (c. 1819 – 6 July 1894) married Alice Maynard (c. 1819 – 25 April 1895) on 27 August 1838, had a home on Sandford Road, Magill. They had 13 children, including: They had 13 children, including:

  5. Chemistry: A Volatile History - Wikipedia

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    Moseley realised it was the atomic number, not the atomic weight that determines the order of the elements. What's more, because the atomic number increases in whole numbers from one element to the next there can be no extra elements between Hydrogen (atomic number 1) and Uranium (atomic number 92) – there can only be 92 elements, there is no ...

  6. History of atomic theory - Wikipedia

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    During the 1920s, some writers defined the atomic number as being the number of "excess protons" in a nucleus. Before the discovery of the neutron, scientists believed that the atomic nucleus contained a number of "nuclear electrons" which cancelled out the positive charge of some of its protons. This explained why the atomic weights of most ...

  7. Henry Nottidge Moseley - Wikipedia

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    Henry Nottidge Moseley FRS (14 November 1844 – 10 November 1891) was a British naturalist who sailed on the global scientific expedition of HMS Challenger in 1872 through 1876. [ 1 ] Life

  8. Murder of Kitty Genovese - Wikipedia

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    Moseley was charged with the murder of Genovese but was not charged with the other two murders he had admitted to. [8] For the police, a complicating factor was that another man, Alvin Mitchell, had also confessed to the murder of Barbara Kralik. [38] Moseley's trial began on June 8, 1964, and was presided over by Judge J. Irwin Shapiro.

  9. Henry Moseley (mathematician) - Wikipedia

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    Henry Moseley (9 July 1801 – 20 January 1872) was an English churchman, mathematician, and scientist. Biography.