Francis William Aston
British chemist (1877-1945)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize for inventing the mass spectrograph and discovering isotopes in non-radioactive elements. His whole number rule became foundational to nuclear physics.
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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. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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