Francis William Aston
British chemist (1877-1945)
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United KingdomHe proved that atoms of the same element can have different weights — a discovery that rewired chemistry and earned him the 1922 Nobel Prize.
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Francis William Aston was a British chemist and physicist born 1 September 1877. He built a mass spectrograph, an instrument that could measure atomic masses with unprecedented precision, and used it to discover isotopes in many non-radioactive elements — variants of the same atom with different masses. That work led him to formulate the whole number rule, a pattern governing atomic weights. The Royal Society made him a fellow, as did Trinity College, Cambridge. He died 20 November 1945.
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