Francis William Aston
Also known as Francis Aston
British chemist (1877-1945)
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Francis William Aston was a British chemist who lived from 1877 to 1945 and made important contributions to understanding the structure of atoms and molecules. His work helped advance our knowledge of how matter is composed at its most fundamental level.
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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 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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1877 births1945 deathsAcademics of the University of BirminghamAlumni of the University of BirminghamAlumni of the University of LondonAlumni of Trinity College, CambridgeAlumni of University of London WorldwideBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureatesChemists of the University of BirminghamCorresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)