CHEMIST

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francis William Aston has received more than 215,468 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Francis William Aston is the 71st most popular chemist (down from 49th in 2019), the 366th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 353rd in 2019) and the 8th 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

Among chemists, Francis William Aston ranks 71 out of 602. Before him are Joseph Black, Tadeusz Reichstein, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Paul J. Crutzen, Joseph Proust, and Julius Lothar Meyer. After him are Irving Langmuir, Hermann Staudinger, Heinrich Otto Wieland, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Dorothy Hodgkin, and George de Hevesy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Francis William Aston ranks 9. Before him are Felix Dzerzhinsky, Wilhelm Frick, Charles Glover Barkla, Joan Gamper, Frederick Soddy, and Muhammad Iqbal. After him are Heinrich Otto Wieland, G. H. Hardy, Louis Renault, Raoul Dufy, Kees van Dongen, and Said Nursî. Among people deceased in 1945, Francis William Aston ranks 41. Before him are Hans Fischer, Stefan Banach, Hans Krebs, Roland Freisler, Giovanni Agnelli, and Friedrich Fromm. After him are Ernst Busch, Vladimir Vernadsky, Franz Werfel, Oskar Dirlewanger, Josef Kramer, and Hans Geiger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis William Aston ranks 366 out of 8,785. Before him are Anthony Burgess (1917), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), Joseph Merrick (1862), Theresa May (1956), Arthur Balfour (1848), and Henry Moore (1898). After him are Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660), John Ruskin (1819), William Laud (1573), Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885), Harthacnut (1018), and Anne, Princess Royal (1950).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Francis William Aston ranks 8. Before him are William Ramsay (1852), Humphry Davy (1778), Frederick Sanger (1918), Arthur Harden (1865), Frederick Soddy (1877), and Norman Haworth (1883). After him are William Crookes (1832), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), Robert Robinson (1886), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), and Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914).

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