May 11, 2020
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‘ moseley never witnessed the success of his discovery, because he was killed in the early years of WWI, shot through the head in 1915 by a turkish soldier during the battle of gallipoli. he was 27 years old. it is generally believed that had moseley lived just one more year, he would almost certainly have been awarded a nobel prize in 1916 for his discovery of the physical basis of atomic number. the nobel prize in physics in 1916 was not awarded at all. ‘