Francis William Aston - Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1922
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Francis William Aston

Prize
Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1922
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
Citizenship
United Kingdom United Kingdom
Languages
English
date of birth
9/1/1877
place of birth
Harborne, Birmingham
date of death
11/20/1945
place of death
Cambridge
Lived
68 years
educated at
  • University of Birmingham
    • start time: 1893
  • Trinity College
  • Malvern College
  • University of London
employer
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Birmingham
    • start time: 1903
notable work
  • mass spectrometry
member of
  • Academy of Sciences of the USSR
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 2/24/1927
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 12/6/1924
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 5/12/1921
field of work
  • chemistry
  • physics
occupation
  • physicist
  • chemist
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