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Moseley resigned from the Air Force at the request of U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in June 2008 in the wake of a number of Air Force scandals, including a 2007 scandal related to the Air Force's handling of the security of nuclear weapons at Minot Air Force Base.
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Sometime in the first half of 1914, Moseley resigned from his position at Manchester, with plans to return to Oxford and continue his physics research there.
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Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.
To do this, Moseley measured the wavelengths of the innermost photon transitions ( K and L lines ) produced by the elements from aluminum ( Z = 13 ) to gold ( Z = 79 ) used as a series of movable anodic targets inside an x-ray tube.
Among other things, Moseley demonstrated that the lanthanide series ( from lanthanum to lutetium inclusive ) must have 15 members — no fewer and no more — which was far from obvious from the chemistry at that time.
Immediately after graduation from Oxford in 1910, Moseley became a demonstrator in physics at the University of Manchester under the supervision of Sir Ernest Rutherford.
The great change came from Moseley.
Moseley redefined the idea of atomic numbers from its previous status as an ad hoc numerical tag to help sorting the elements, in particular in the Periodic Table, into a real and objective whole-number quantity that was experimentally measurable.
Moseley participated in the design and development of early X-ray spectrometry equipment, learning some techniques from William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg at the University of Leeds, and developing others himself.
* Annotated Bibliography for Henry Moseley from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
But the Dolphins defense only allowed Washington to advance to the 3-yard line on their next three plays, and so the Redskins had to settle for another field goal from Moseley to cut their deficit to 17 – 13.
In the meantime, Taylor and Bullock introduced over one hundred amendments, including the first ten amendments to the U. S. Constitution, to try to stall the bill ; this effort was assisted by Carol Moseley Braun, a civil rights advocate and liberal from Hyde Park.
Emil Dopyera ( also known as Ed Dopera ) manufactured Dobros from 1959 under the brand name Dopera's Original before selling the company and name to Semie Moseley, who merged it with his Mosrite guitar company and manufactured Dobros for a time.
Jan Swammerdam observed the common mathematical characteristics of a wide range of shells from Helix to Spirula and Henry Nottidge Moseley described the mathematics of univalve shells.
Williams's predecessor, Doug Moseley, who served from 1974 – 1987, formerly resided in Adair County.
At this time, he became Perpetual curate of St Mary's Church, Moseley from 1684-1686.
* Doug Moseley, later a Kentucky state senator, was pastor of the Russell Springs First United Methodist Church from 1958-1960.
According to Princess Merle, the biography written by Charles Higham with Roy Moseley, Oberon suffered even further damage to her complexion in 1940 from a combination of cosmetic poisoning and an allergic reaction to sulfa drugs.
Moseley was served by Moseley railway station from 1867 to 1941.
Their new home is a few yards from the Moseley border at Billesley.
He also drew inspiration from Moseley Bog for the landscape of Middle-earth.
Planning permission has been acquired for the erection on Moseley Green of a high statue of Treebeard, an Ent from The Lord of the Rings, made by Tolkien's great-nephew, Tim Tolkien.
Established with funding from charitable trust funds and with the support of the Moseley and Kings Heath Ward Committee, the CDT is now managing a series of initiatives to improve the environment of Moseley.
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As an end result of the situation, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that, " A substantial number of Air Force general officers and colonels have been identified as potentially subject to disciplinary measures, ranging from removal from command to letters of reprimand ," and that he had accepted the resignations of USAF Secretary Michael Wynne and USAF Chief of Staff Michael Moseley.
In June 2008, Air Force Chief of Staff Michael Moseley announced the return of the missile badge with operations designator for intercontinental ballistic missile crews.
In 1999, Moseley challenged the International Skiing federation to change their policy and to allow their athletes to participate in professional events, such as ESPN's X Games where he earned a silver medal in the Big Air event.
Moseley doing a trick jump at the Icer Air 2005 event held on the streets of San Francisco, September 29, 2005.
* T. Michael Moseley ( born 1949 ), former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
As a result, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley has sounded warnings about having airmen filling Army jobs they are not trained to do.
The article was subsequently forwarded to the Joint Chiefs of Staff by Air Force Chief of Staff General Moseley and an effort to overhaul current U. S. doctrine was initiated using van Avery's framework.
General Teed Michael Moseley, USAF ( born September 3, 1949 ) is a retired United States Air Force General who served as the 20th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force is a fighter pilot with more than 2, 800 flight hours, many in the F-15 Eagle.
On 2 September 2005, Moseley assumed his final Air Force assignment as Chief of Staff of the Air Force — the senior uniformed Air Force officer responsible for the organization, training and equipage of more than 700, 000 active-duty, Guard, Reserve and civilian forces serving in the United States and overseas.
On 11 July 2008, a formal retirement ceremony was held for General Moseley ; he officially retired from the Air Force on 11 August 2008.
General Moseley also commanded 9th Air Force and U. S. Central Command Air Forces while serving as Combined Forces Air Component Commander for Operations in Operation Southern Watch, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Moseley assumed the position of Chief of Staff of the Air Force during a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base on September 2, 2005.
Moseley personally " adopted " the United States Air Force Academy Class of 2009 as his own, and has gone out of his way to address the future leaders of the U. S. Air Force.
As a result of a series of high-profile scandals, Moseley, along with the Secretary of the Air Force, was forced to resign — his resignation coming on 5 June 2008 in the wake of a report that criticized the service's handling of nuclear weapons security related to the 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident and a misshipment of nuclear missile components to Taiwan.
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Following his resignation, Moseley continued to serve as Chief of Staff of the Air Force until his official retirement ceremony at Bolling AFB, Washington, D. C. on 11 July 2008.
On 11 July 2008, Moseley had his formal retirement ceremony at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D. C. Former Secretary of the Air Force, the Honorable Michael Wynne presided over the ceremony.
Moseley officially retired from the Air Force on August 1, 2008.
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When World War I broke out in Western Europe, Moseley left his research work at the University of Oxford behind to volunteer for the Royal Engineers of the British Army.
Moseley was shot and killed during the Battle of Gallipoli on 10 August 1915, at the age of 27.
His father Henry Nottidge Moseley ( 1844 – 91 ), who died when Henry Moseley was quite young, was a biologist and also a professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Oxford, who had been a member of the Challenger Expedition.
Henry Moseley had been a very promising schoolboy at Summer Fields School ( where one of the four ' leagues ' is named after him ), and he was awarded a King's scholarship to attend Eton College.
In addition, Moseley showed that there were gaps in the atomic number sequence at numbers 43, 61, 72, and 75.
Only twenty-seven years old at his death, Moseley could in many scientists ' opinions have contributed a lot to the knowledge of atomic structure had he survived.
A glass-bulb electron tube was used, similar to that held by Moseley in the photo at the top of this article.
In 1876 another newspaper, the “ Times ,” published by Tom Brown and James Moseley was published until 1884 at which time it was merged with the “ Current Local ” which was established by Clay Moseley that same year, and which is currently Carter County ’ s only locally published newspaper.
The first ever was held at Moseley Bog in Birmingham, England in 1984, by the Urban Wildlife Trust.
The politician Joseph Chamberlain had his Birmingham residence at Highbury, on the edge of Moseley.
Much like the Moseley Community Development Trust, the group undertake many projects which look at the greener issues around Moseley.
France, Germany, represented mainly by the FC 1880 Frankfurt, and Great Britain, represented by the Moseley Wanderers, all participated in the inaugural rugby event at the Olympics.
That October, the new club wore black for their first game against Moseley at the Belgrave Cricket and Cycle Ground.
When Fajans worked at the laboratory of Ernest Rutherford ( with Henry G. Moseley ) he was researching properties of the radioactive rows.
He was then moved from Boscobel to Moseley Old Hall, another Catholic redoubt near Wolverhampton, and ultimately escaped the region posing as the servant of Jane Lane of Bentley, whose family were also landowners at Broom Hall and the Hyde in Brewood.
It is joined by the Chinn Brook at Yardley, and a little further downstream at Moseley is the Grade II Listed water mill, Sarehole Mill.
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