I would like to commemorate the birth on this day in 1887 of the physicist Henry Gwynn Jeffreys Moseley. Before Moseley's work, the periodic table had some gaps and anomalies. Moseley's work put the table on much firmer foundation, in that atomic number, not atomic mass, was the basis of the classification.
Moseley died at the Battle of Gallipoli, aged 27, and in this centennial of the war's end, it seemed especially fitting to remember his life and accomplishments. Robert Mulliken wrote, "In a research which is destined to rank as one of the dozen most brilliant in conception, skillful in execution, and illuminating in results in the history of science, a young man twenty-six years old threw open the windows through which we can glimpse the sub-atomic world with a definiteness and certainty never dreamed of before. Had the European War had no other result than the snuffing out of this young life, that alone would make it one of the most hideous and most irreparable crimes in history."
Moseley died at the Battle of Gallipoli, aged 27, and in this centennial of the war's end, it seemed especially fitting to remember his life and accomplishments. Robert Mulliken wrote, "In a research which is destined to rank as one of the dozen most brilliant in conception, skillful in execution, and illuminating in results in the history of science, a young man twenty-six years old threw open the windows through which we can glimpse the sub-atomic world with a definiteness and certainty never dreamed of before. Had the European War had no other result than the snuffing out of this young life, that alone would make it one of the most hideous and most irreparable crimes in history."
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