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Henry Moseley Created 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-11-05
Henry Moseley measured characteristic X-ray frequencies across a sequence of chemical elements. For a given series, the square root of the frequency is approximately linear in atomic number after a screening offset is included. The regularity connects a spectral measurement with a discrete nuclear-charge label, rather than merely correlating with atomic weight. Missing positions in that sequence also made X-ray spectroscopy a way to test and extend the periodic ordering of chemical elements.[ref]
The High-Frequency Spectra of the Elements. Part II by Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley. 1914 paper, pp. 703–713: characteristic lines, atomic-number sequence and spectral regularity
A physicist.[ref]
Moseley and X Rays by University of Oxford Department of Physics. Independent professional biography and identity
Portrait of Henry Moseley
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