For Science King & Country
The Life and Legacy of Henry Moseley
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2018
Uniform Press (Verlag)
9781910500712 (ISBN)
Uniform Press (Verlag)
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The book traces the life and loss of a scientist whose short but mercurial career, brought suddenly to an end by the Great War, changed the face of physics research and the world of science.
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.
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.
Edited by Professor Roy MacLeod, Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Sydney, Professor Russell G. Egdell, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford and Dr Elizabeth Bruton, Curator of Technology and Engineering at The Science Museum, London.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.07.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 170 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781910500712 / 9781910500712 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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