Francis William Aston
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 80 years ago |
| Date of birth | September 1,1877 |
| Zodiac sign | Virgo |
| Born | Harborne |
| Birmingham | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | November 20,1945 |
| Died | Cambridge |
| United Kingdom | |
| Siblings | Helen Aston |
| Mary Aston | |
| Known for | Mass spectrometry |
| Whole number rule | |
| Glow discharge | |
| Job | Physicist |
| Chemist | |
| Education | Mason Science College |
| University of Cambridge | |
| Malvern College | |
| Trinity College | |
| University of Birmingham | |
| University of London | |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
| Royal Medal | |
| Hughes Medal | |
| Royal Society Bakerian Medal | |
| John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium | |
| Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize | |
| Books | Isotopes |
| Mass Spectra and Isotopes | |
| Atomic Weights and Isotopes | |
| Doctor advisor | Percy F. Frankland |
| Nationality | British |
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| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 547099 |
Francis William Aston Life story
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.