Awards & Winners

Francis William Aston

Date of Birth 01-September-1877
Place of Birth Harborne
(West Midlands)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Francis W. Aston
Profession Chemist
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 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.

Awards by Francis William Aston

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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.)
Hughes Medal
(For his discovery of isotopes of a large number of the elements by the method of positive rays.)