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Francis William Aston

1877 - 1945

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Francis William Aston FRS (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francis William Aston is the 61st most popular chemist (up from 71st in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 366th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Chemist.

Francis William Aston was a British chemist who is most famous for his discovery of isotopes.

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Among chemists, Francis William Aston ranks 61 out of 602. Before him are Rodney Robert Porter, Robert Bunsen, Justus von Liebig, Frederick Soddy, Kurt Alder, and Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.. After him are Norman Haworth, John Howard Northrop, Ilya Prigogine, Leopold Ružička, Wendell Meredith Stanley, and Henry Hallett Dale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Francis William Aston ranks 7. Before him are Hermann Hesse, Muhammad Iqbal, Isadora Duncan, Charles Glover Barkla, Felix Dzerzhinsky, and Frederick Soddy. After him are Wilhelm Frick, Joan Gamper, Heinrich Otto Wieland, James Jeans, Frank Marshall, and Edgar Cayce. Among people deceased in 1945, Francis William Aston ranks 17. Before him are Fedor von Bock, Walter Model, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Vidkun Quisling, Magda Goebbels, and Subhas Chandra Bose. After him are Wilhelm Canaris, George S. Patton, Irma Grese, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Clara Petacci, and Ernst Cassirer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis William Aston ranks 294 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Young (1773), Jane Goodall (1934), Jason Statham (1967), Henry I of England (1068), James Black (1924), and Mary Tudor, Queen of France (1496). After him are George Best (1946), Alfred Marshall (1842), Saint Ursula (400), Norman Haworth (1883), Edward Smith (1850), and John Sulston (1942).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Francis William Aston ranks 12. Before him are Humphry Davy (1778), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Arthur Harden (1865), Archer Martin (1910), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), and Frederick Soddy (1877). After him are Norman Haworth (1883), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Sanger (1918), Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), and William Crookes (1832).

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