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Killed in action at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915,
aged just twenty-seven, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was widely
regarded as the most promising British physicist of his generation.
His pioneering measurements of X-ray spectra provided a firm basis
for the concept of atomic number and re-cast the periodic table of
the elements into its modern form. Had he survived, he seemed
destined to win a Nobel Prize. This book is a commemoration of
Moseley's life, work, and legacy. Inspired by the exhibition 'Dear
Harry... Henry Moseley: A Scientist Lost to War', at the Museum of
the History of Science, Oxford, in 2015-2016, and revisiting
earlier accounts, thirteen historians and scientists chart his
experience of Manchester and Oxford; his military service; the
reception of his work by the scientific community; and the impact
of his work upon X-ray spectroscopy in physics, chemistry, and
materials science. For Science, King & Country speaks to those
with an interest in history, science, and the First World War, and
draws upon a wealth of archives, artefacts, and recent research on
the reward systems of science. Overall, it presents a comprehensive
account of a young scientist whose brief but mercurial career paved
the way to a new understanding of nature, and to shaping the future
of physical science.
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