Francis William Aston

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Born(1877-09-01)1 September 1877
Harborne, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Died20 November 1945(1945-11-20) (aged 68)
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
NationalityEnglish
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materMason College (as issued by University of London)
Trinity College, Cambridge
Known forMass spectrograph
Whole Number Rule
Aston Dark Space
AwardsMackenzie Davidson Medal (1920)
Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1922)
Hughes Medal (1922)
John Scott Medal (1923)
Paterno Medal (1923)
Royal Medal (1938)
Duddell Medal and Prize (1944)
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry, physics
InstitutionsTrinity College, Cambridge
Doctoral advisorPercy F. Frankland[citation needed]
Other academic advisorsJ. J. Thomson
John Henry Poynting
William A. Tilden