Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys Moseley

Henry Gwyn-Jefferys Moseley ( 1887 - 1915 )

Born 23 November 1887 Weymouth

Died 10 August 1915 Gallipoli

Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford

RSC blue plaque location:Townsend Building, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford

Unveiled: 24 September 2007 by the Vice Chancellor of oxford University, Dr John Hood

After graduating he went to Manchester to work in Ernest Rutherford's Laboratory as a lecturer and demostrator in physics. He measured diffraction of X-rays by many metal targets and discoverd the relationship between X-ray spectra and atomic numbers, now known as Moseley's Law.

The RSC blue plaque was erected after the first edition of the Oxford Science Walk which has a drawing of Moseley with some of his apparatus on page 11.

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