Francis W. Aston(1877–1945)
ChemistryFrancis 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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Awards & Recognition
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1922for 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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International Table of Stable Isotopes
Nature1942
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Shared the same award in the same year
Education
University of London
University of Birmingham
Trinity College
Malvern College
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Career Timeline
University of Oxford?–present
University of Birmingham1903–present
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Other winners of the same award(s)
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2022)
FS
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1980)
OY
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2025)
GW
Greg Winter
Copley Medal (2025)
JM
John Michael Jumper
Fellow of the Royal Society (2025)
RR
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2025)
SK
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2025)
DH
Demis Hassabis
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)
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