For Science King & Country: The Life and Legacy of Henry Moseley
Language: English
Published by Unicorn Publishing Group, London, 2018
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ix, 316, numerous illus. . PB. As new. Killed in action at Gallipoli 1915, aged 27, Henry Moseley was regarded as the most promising British physicist of his generation. [9781910500712].
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- Title
- For Science King & Country: The Life and Legacy of Henry Moseley
- Author
- MacLeod, R.; Egdell, R.G.; Bruton, E. (Eds)
- Publisher
- Unicorn Publishing Group, London
- Publication year
- 2018
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- As New
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 1910500712
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- 9781910500712
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- HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY & BIBLIOGRAPHY,HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY & BIBLIOGRAPHY
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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