Francis William Aston Scientist

Francis William Aston FRS (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) 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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Francis William Aston
Birth dateSeptember 01, 1877
Birth place
Birmingham , Harborne
Nationality
United Kingdom
Date of deathNovember 20, 1945
Place of death
Cambridge
Education
University of Birmingham
University of Cambridge
Known for
Mass spectrometry
Whole number rule

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