Francis William Aston

Francis William Aston
Aston in 1922
Born(1877-09-01)1 September 1877
Harborne, Birmingham, England
Died20 November 1945(1945-11-20) (aged 68)
Cambridge, England
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materMason College (as issued by University of London)
Trinity College, Cambridge
Known forMass spectrograph
Whole Number Rule
Aston Dark Space[1]
AwardsMackenzie Davidson Medal (1920)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1922)
Hughes Medal (1922)
John Scott Medal (1923)
Paterno Medal (1923)
Royal Medal (1938)
Duddell Medal and Prize (1944)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, physics
InstitutionsTrinity College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisorPercy F. Frankland[citation needed]
Other academic advisorsJ. J. Thomson
John Henry Poynting[1]
William A. Tilden[1]

Francis William Aston FRS[2] (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 many non-radioactive elements and for his enunciation of the whole number rule.[3][4] He was a fellow of the Royal Society[2] and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[5]

  1. ^ a b c "Francis W. Aston - Biographical". NobelPrize.org. The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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  3. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922". Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
  4. ^ Squires, Gordon (1998). "Francis Aston and the mass spectrograph". Dalton Transactions (23): 3893–3900. doi:10.1039/a804629h.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference obit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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