Died 1945-11-20.
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Francis William Aston
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. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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science · British chemist and physicist (1877–1945) · physicist · chemist · also Francis William Aston, Francis Aston, Aston
Born 1 September 1877 · Died 20 November 1945 · Q102291
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1945· 1 entry
1944· 1 entry
Won Dennis Gabor Medal and Prize (1944).
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1938· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1938).
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded Liversidge Award (1932).
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1927· 1 entry
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1927).
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1925· 1 entry
Sumatra in 1932, Magog in Canada on 31 August 1932 and Kamishari Hokkaido, Japan on June19th 1936
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1923· 1 entry
Awarded John Scott Award (1923).
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1922· 3 entries
Awarded the 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.
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Won Hughes Medal (1922).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1922).
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1921· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1921).
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Aston became a member of the International Committee on Atomic Weights and a fellow of the Royal Society and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry the following year
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1912· 1 entry
Aston discovered that the neon splits into two tracts, roughly corresponding to atomic mass 20 and 22
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1910· 1 entry
And a DSc in Applied/Pure Science in 1914
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1908· 1 entry
Was appointed lecturer at the University of Birmingham in 1909 but moved to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge on the invitation of J
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1903· 1 entry
When he returned to the University of Birmingham under Poynting as an Associate
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1902· 1 entry
And participated in the Gordon Bennett auto race in Ireland in 1903
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1898· 1 entry
Started as a student of Frankland financed by a Forster Scholarship; his work concerned optical properties of tartaric acid compounds
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1893· 2 entries
Studied at University of Birmingham (1893).
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Francis William Aston began his university studies at Mason College (which was then external college of University of London) where he was taught physics by John Henry Poynting and chemistry by Frankland and Tilden
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1877· 1 entry
Born 1877-09-01.
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