Henry Moseley: A Patriotic Scientist Who Changed the Periodic Table — and Then Went Off to War
Physicist Henry Moseley did not have to fight for his country in World War I.
Because he was an aristocrat and an accomplished scientist, the young Moseley’s mother told him he could serve his country using his scientific expertise from behind the battle lines.
Undaunted, Moseley tried to join the British military’s Royal Engineers but was initially rejected. They told Moseley, “We need engineers, not physicists.”
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