Francis William Aston

Chemist, Academic

1877 – 1945

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Who was Francis William Aston?

Francis William Aston FRS was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole number rule. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Born
Sep 1, 1877
Harborne
Also known as
  • Francis W. Aston
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Birmingham
  • Malvern College
Lived in
  • United Kingdom
  • Birmingham
Died
Nov 20, 1945
Cambridge

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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