Henry Moseley's Timeline

By maggielopez34

  • Henry was born

    E-poster "
    Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was born in the town of Weymouth, England, on November 23, 1887."
    (Henry Moseley. (2000). Retrieved November 17, 2015, from http://www.famousscientists.org/henry-moseley/)
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    Henry Moseley's Timespan

    http://www.famousscientists.org/henry-moseley/

  • Time to study

    "He was admitted in 1906 to the University of Oxford’s Trinity College, where he studied physics. There he disappointed himself. He was suffering badly from hayfever when he sat his final exams. He got a second class honors degree in physics, not the ‘first’ he had hoped for and expected."
    (Henry Moseley. (2000). Retrieved November 17, 2015, from http://www.famousscientists.org/henry-moseley/)

  • He won a prize

    "He decided the school’s physics lessons were too easy, so he worked on the subject independently. Aged 18, he won Eton’s physics and chemistry prizes."
    (Henry Moseley. (2000). Retrieved November 17, 2015, from http://www.famousscientists.org/henry-moseley/)

  • University of Manchester

    "In 1910 Moseley moved to the University of Manchester to join Ernest Rutherford’s research group."
    (Henry Moseley. (2000). Retrieved November 17, 2015, from http://www.famousscientists.org/henry-moseley/)

  • Van dan Broek's idea was published

    "In 1911 Antonius van den Broek had published his hypothesis that atomic number – which at this time was simply the position of an element in the periodic table – might actually be equal to the amount of charge in the atom’s nucleus. There was, however, no experimental evidence to prove this hypothesis."
    (Henry Moseley. (2000). Retrieved November 17, 2015, from http://www.famousscientists.org/henry-moseley/)

  • Tried out some ideas

    "In 1912 he attempted to use high positive voltages to pull beta particles (high energy electrons) back into their radioactive source. (This sounds like a fun sort of thing anyway, but Moseley hoped to use the results to shed light on one of the predictions of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity: that mass increases with velocity.)"
    (Henry Moseley. (2000). Retrieved November 17, 2015, from http://www.famousscientists.org/henry-moseley)

  • Time to get creative!

    He moved back to Oxford in 1913. Rutherford had offered him a new fellowship at Manchester on better terms, but Moseley decided the best path for his career would be to get experience in several different laboratories.

  • An element was added

    In 1913 Moseley celebrated his 26th birthday. Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table was older; it had been around for 44 years. New chemical elements were still being discovered and added to it.
    Since Mendeleev’s time, elements in the periodic table had been arranged according to their atomic weights and their chemical properties.

  • He has passed on

    Second Lieutenant Henry Moseley was killed in battle at the age of 27 in Gallipoli, Turkey on August 10, 1915.