How the death of Harry Moseley was linked to Bletchley Park

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An exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Henry Moseley is opening at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. Moseley's death aged 27 at Gallipoli in 1915 prompted a War Office rethink on what to do with great minds - which led to the creation of Bletchley Park. Moseley's work on the X-ray spectra of the elements provided a new foundation for the Periodic Table and contributed to the development of the nuclear model of the atom. He would likely have won the 1916 Nobel Prize. Silke Ackermann is director of the Museum of the History of Science. Professor Andy Parker is head of the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University.