The tragic destiny of Henry Moseley

Henry Moseley receives a Solvay subsidy worth 1,000 Belgian francs in 1913 (i.e. about 264,360 Belgian francs or 6,560 euros in 2017). His work in the field of X-rays (discovery of characteristic spectra for each element) confirms the fundamental role of the atomic number in the periodic classification of the elements (Mendeleev’s table) and lends decisive support to Niels Bohr’s atomic theory. 

Nominated for the 1916 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he is killed on 10 August 1915 by a Turkish sniper on the battlefield of Gallipoli in Turkey.

Henry Moseley never received the 1915 Nobel Prize for chemistry for which he was nominated, because he was killed on 10 August 1915 by a Turkish sniper on the battlefield of Gallipoli in Turkey.