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Francis William Aston
Full Name of the recipient | Francis William Aston |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Chemistry |
Year of Award | 1922 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
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Motivation for the Award | for 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 |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Place of Birth | Harborne, United Kingdom GBR |
Date of Birth | 1 September 1877 |
Age at the time of Award | 44 years |
Place of Death | Cambridge, United Kingdom GBR |
Date of Death | 20 November 1945 |