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Aston, Francis William
Born: 1877 AD
Died: 1945 AD, at 68 years of age.
Nationality: English
Categories: Chemists, Physicists
Died: 1945 AD, at 68 years of age.
Nationality: English
Categories: Chemists, Physicists
1877 - Born on September 1st in Harborne, Birmingham, England. British physicist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
- The Aston dark space in electronic discharges is named after him.
1894 - He entered Mason College, Birmingham where he studied chemistry under Frankland and Tilden, and Physics under Poynting.
1898 - Won the Forster Scholarship and enabled him to work on the optical properties of tartaric acid derivatives.
1903 - He obtained a scholarship to Birmingham University to work on the properties of the Crookes Dark Space in discharge tubes.
1909 - He accepted the invitation of Sir J.J.Thomson to work as his assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, on studies of positive rays.
1919 - He invented the mass spectrograph.
1921 - He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society.
1922 - Won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his development of the mass spectrograph, a device that separates atoms or molecular fragments of different mass and measures those masses with remarkable accuracy.
- He was awarded the Society's Hughes Medal.
- He was also the author of the books Isotopes and of Structural Units of the Material Universe.
1941 - He was Duddell medalist of the Physical Society.
1945 - Died on November 20th in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
- The Aston dark space in electronic discharges is named after him.
1894 - He entered Mason College, Birmingham where he studied chemistry under Frankland and Tilden, and Physics under Poynting.
1898 - Won the Forster Scholarship and enabled him to work on the optical properties of tartaric acid derivatives.
1903 - He obtained a scholarship to Birmingham University to work on the properties of the Crookes Dark Space in discharge tubes.
1909 - He accepted the invitation of Sir J.J.Thomson to work as his assistant at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, on studies of positive rays.
1919 - He invented the mass spectrograph.
1921 - He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society.
1922 - Won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his development of the mass spectrograph, a device that separates atoms or molecular fragments of different mass and measures those masses with remarkable accuracy.
- He was awarded the Society's Hughes Medal.
- He was also the author of the books Isotopes and of Structural Units of the Material Universe.
1941 - He was Duddell medalist of the Physical Society.
1945 - Died on November 20th in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
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Isotopes and atomic weights. 299-310 pp. In: Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with the abstracts of the discourses delivered at the evening meetings, Vol. XXIII. by Francis William (1877-1945). ASTON (Hardcover - Sep 7, 2008) |
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Mass spectra and isotopes by Francis William Aston (Unknown Binding - Sep 7, 2008) |
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Isotopes by Francis William Aston (Unknown Binding - Sep 7, 2008) |
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Mass specra and isotopes: Being the twenty-sixth Robert Boyle lecture delivered before the Junior Scientific Club of the University of Oxford on 3rd June ... Junior Scientific Club Robert Boyle lecture) by Francis William Aston (Unknown Binding - Sep 7, 2008) |
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