Francis William Aston

Francis William Aston, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1877-09-01 in Harborne, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: British chemist and physicist (1877–1945)

Biography

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 many 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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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922

Awarded on: 1922-11-09

"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"

Affiliations:

  • University of CambridgeCambridge, United Kingdom