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Francis William Aston

Scientist · born September 1, 1877 · died 1945

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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.

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  1. ~44Received the Fellow of the Royal Society1921
  2. ~45Received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry1922
  3. ~45Received the Hughes Medal1922
  4. ~61Received the Royal Medal1938

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