Gallipoli campaign

H. G. J. Moseley was one of the many remarkable scientists who worked with Ernest Rutherford. In 1913, Moseley found that the wavelengths of X-rays emitted by an element are related in a precise way to the atomic number of the element. This discovery led to the realization that atomic number, related to the electrical properties of the atom, was more fundamental to determining the properties of the elements than atomic weight. This put the ideas of the periodic table on a more fundamental footing. Moseley s scientific career was very short. He enlisted in the British army during World War I and died in battle in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. 

The young English physicist Henry Moseley, influenced by the discoveries of Laue and the Brt s, used X-ray diffiaction to discover atomic number, which led to important improvements in the periodic table, but his promising scientific career was cut short when he was killed in action in the Gallipoli campaign during World War I. 

H. G. J. Moseley was one of the many remarkable scientists who worked with Ernest Rutherford. Moseley s scientific career was very short. He enlisted In the British army during World War I and died in battle in the Gallipoli campaign In 1915. 

For a historiography survey, see Edward Spiers, Gallipoli , in Brian Bond (ed.), The First World War and British Military History (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. 165-88. For Churchill s part, see Michael Howard, Churchill and the First World War , in Robert Blake and W. Roger Louis (eds.), Churchill (Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 129-45, at pp. 137-8. For lack of staff work and Hankey s role, see Gooch, Plans of War, pp. 309-15. The best account of the campaign is Tim Travers, Gallipoli 1915 (Stroud Tempus, 2001). 

Gallipoli. Matters were no more advanced by the Norwegian campaign in 1940. However, amphibious operations became a major feature of the Second World War and investment in commando carriers and specialist landing craft after 1957 for the East of Suez role raised British capability for combined operations to new levels of efficiency. Once more there is no clear trend here from a naval to an air or nuclear phase in the British way of warfare. 

Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915). English physicist. Moseley discovered the relationship between X-ray spec-tra and atomic number. A lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, he was killed in action at the age of 28 during the British campaign in Gallipoli, Turkey. 

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