- Publisher: Uniform
- Year: 2018
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 326pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 232x170mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.9kg
- ISBN: 9781910500712
- Product code: 538700
For Science King and Country
New Paperback Illustrated
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A promising physicist, Henry Moseley was just 27 when he was killed in action at Gallipoli. Paying tribute to his achievements the contributors to this volume outline his life and legacy, from his early education at Eton and work on X-ray spectroscopy to how his findings have been used in the development of technologies such as the electron microscope.
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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.
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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A promising physicist, Henry Moseley was just 27 when he was killed in action at Gallipoli. Paying tribute to his achievements the contributors to this volume outline his life and legacy, from his early education at Eton and work on X-ray spectroscopy to how his findings have been used in the development of technologies such as the electron microscope.
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