H. G. J. Moseley (1887 - 1915), the son and grandson of
distinguished English scientists, a favorite student of
Rutherford's and a colleague of Bohr's, completed researches of
capital importance for atomic physics just before the outbreak of
World War I. He was urged to devote himself to scientific war work
in England, but his duty as he aw it was to join the battle. He
procured himself command of a signaling section in the Royal
Engineers, a speedy trip to Gallipoli, and death in the bloody
battle for Sari Bair. In this work the author presents a full
record of Moseley's brief and brilliant career. It gives
instructive detail about Eton, which, as Heilbron shows, offered
more opportunity for acquiring a foundation in science than its
emphasis on Greek and games would suggest; about Oxford, a
scientific backwater in Moseley's time; and about Rutherford's
thriving laboratory at the University of Manchester. It describes
in detail Moseley's apprenticeship in experimental physics, his
growth under the tight supervision of Manchester, and his classical
independent work on X rays, which almost certainly would have
brought him the Nobel Prize. An epilogue sketches the chief results
secured by other in the decade after his death in the research
lines he opened. Heilbron's account is informed by an unequaled
acquaintance with the relevant manuscript material, including all
of Moseley's known correspondence (most of which he discovered) and
the paper of colleagues such as Bohr, W. H. Bragg, G. H. Darwin, F.
A. Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), Rutherford, Henry Tizard, Georges
Ubrain, and G. von Hevesy. An important feature of the book is the
publication, in extenso, of Moseley's surviving correspondence.
These letters are not only a rich source for historians of science
and of education. Tehy are also splendid reading: well-written
records of the maturing of a strong mind, pithy commentaries on the
Establishment as Moseley saw it, and exciting notices of the course
of one of the most important researches in modern physical science.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1974.
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