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Bohr in a subsequent revelation described the importance of Moseley's work: After Rutherford had postulated the nuclear atom, many persons (particularly those on the Continent), thinking such simple models were childish, did not take Rutherford's ideas seriously. After Moseley developed his law of atomic numbers, however, all changed, and law, models, and theory of the atom all merged in a beautiful consilience. Photograph taken at Trinity College, Oxford, 1910.