Talk:Henry Moseley

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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · refresh) Fluidly-written article, but needs an experienced editor specialising in physics to sort through the technical jargon, as the reader is unlikely to know much about atomic numbers. I would classify this as an article needing work on as a priority, given his important work on the field. Edofedinburgh 01:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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Help with this template Comments: edit – history – watch – refresh Fluidly-written article, but needs an experienced editor specialising in physics to sort through the technical jargon, as the reader is unlikely to know much about atomic numbers. I would classify this as an article needing work on as a priority, given his important work on the field. Edofedinburgh 01:48, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

According to Modern Physics by Tipler & Llewellyn, Moseley predicted three elements: Z = 43, 61 and 75. If this is true, the wikipedia article is misleading, almost lying.

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Yeah, but I still can't know if Tipler is right. In order to increase the probability of a correct article, a little more research should be done. Or what to you think?

According to [1], he predicted three (which seems to be using the Heilbron book as a source, which is authoritative if true). This [2] says it was four elements but doesn't give a citation. If the Heilbron book says three, then I'd say it is probably three... --Fastfission 18:19, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In his original articles, which I have added a link to on the page, Moseley stated that there were three, and only three, gaps in the periodic table (as then known) between aluminum and gold. Mendeleev had previously predicted the existence and properties of technetium, and Bohuslav Brauner had predicted the existence of promethium, so Moseley confirmed their predictions, made one other prediction, and showed that there were no additional gaps in the elements up through gold. --Chuck Y 19 Aug 2005

That second sentence is a fragment.