Francis William Aston
1877 – 1945 · aged 68
British chemist (1877-1945)
- Born
- 1 Sept 1877 · Harborne
- Died
- 20 Nov 1945 · Cambridge
Life timeline
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- 1 Sept 1877BornBorn in Harborne
- 1921AwardFellow of the Royal Society
- 1922AwardHughes Medal
- 1922AwardNobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1923AwardJohn Scott Award
- 1927AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
- 1932AwardLiversidge Award
- 1938AwardRoyal Medal
- 1944AwardDennis Gabor Medal and Prize
- 20 Nov 1945DiedDied in Cambridge
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1877 – 1945).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
Biography
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.
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