1877 - 1945
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 197,840 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Francis William Aston is the 49th most popular chemist (down from 48th in 2019), the 353rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 395th in 2019) and the 7th 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 49 out of 509. Before him are Victor Grignard, Theodor Svedberg, William Crookes, Gerty Cori, Paul Karrer, and Joseph Black. After him are Tu Youyou, Julius Lothar Meyer, Paul Sabatier, Fritz Pregl, Adolf Butenandt, and Hans Fischer.
1871 - 1935
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 43
1884 - 1971
HPI: 67.67
Rank: 44
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 45
1896 - 1957
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 46
1889 - 1971
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 47
1728 - 1799
HPI: 67.10
Rank: 48
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 49
1930 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 50
1830 - 1895
HPI: 66.87
Rank: 51
1854 - 1941
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 52
1869 - 1930
HPI: 66.77
Rank: 53
1903 - 1995
HPI: 66.74
Rank: 54
1881 - 1945
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 55
Among people born in 1877, Francis William Aston ranks 7. Before him are Hermann Hesse, Isadora Duncan, Hjalmar Schacht, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Wilhelm Frick, and Frederick Soddy. After him are Joan Gamper, Charles Glover Barkla, Muhammad Iqbal, Louis Renault, Edgar Cayce, and Raoul Dufy. Among people deceased in 1945, Francis William Aston ranks 37. Before him are Friedrich Fromm, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Pierre Laval, Emil Hácha, Ernst Busch, and Robert Ley. After him are Hans Krebs, Oskar Dirlewanger, Roland Freisler, Hans Fischer, Josef Kramer, and Wilhelm Burgdorf.
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 1
1877 - 1927
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 2
1877 - 1970
HPI: 71.59
Rank: 3
1877 - 1926
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 4
1877 - 1946
HPI: 70.59
Rank: 5
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 6
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1877 - 1930
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 8
1877 - 1944
HPI: 66.03
Rank: 9
1877 - 1938
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 10
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 11
1877 - 1945
HPI: 64.96
Rank: 12
1877 - 1953
HPI: 64.87
Rank: 13
1888 - 1945
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 31
1895 - 1945
HPI: 67.94
Rank: 32
1883 - 1945
HPI: 67.51
Rank: 33
1872 - 1945
HPI: 67.42
Rank: 34
1885 - 1945
HPI: 67.30
Rank: 35
1890 - 1945
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 36
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 37
1898 - 1945
HPI: 66.94
Rank: 38
1895 - 1945
HPI: 66.89
Rank: 39
1893 - 1945
HPI: 66.83
Rank: 40
1881 - 1945
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 41
1906 - 1945
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 42
1895 - 1945
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 43
Among people born in United Kingdom, Francis William Aston ranks 353 out of 7,765. Before him are John Galsworthy (1867), Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (1411), Richard Attenborough (1923), Colin Firth (1960), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), and Malcolm McDowell (1943). After him are Ronald Coase (1910), Æthelflæd (869), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), Oswald Mosley (1896), Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844), and John Bowlby (1907).
1867 - 1933
HPI: 67.16
Rank: 347
1411 - 1460
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 348
1923 - 2014
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 349
1960 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 350
1849 - 1924
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 351
1943 - Present
HPI: 67.09
Rank: 352
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 353
1910 - 2013
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 354
869 - 918
HPI: 67.02
Rank: 355
1892 - 1965
HPI: 67.00
Rank: 356
1896 - 1980
HPI: 66.99
Rank: 357
1844 - 1900
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 358
1907 - 1990
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 359
Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Francis William Aston ranks 7. Before him are John Dalton (1766), Humphry Davy (1778), William Ramsay (1852), Frederick Sanger (1918), Frederick Soddy (1877), and William Crookes (1832). After him are Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861), Norman Haworth (1883), John Newlands (1837), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Robert Robinson (1886), and James Dewar (1842).
1766 - 1844
HPI: 81.13
Rank: 1
1778 - 1829
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 2
1852 - 1916
HPI: 68.58
Rank: 3
1918 - 2013
HPI: 68.29
Rank: 4
1877 - 1956
HPI: 67.72
Rank: 5
1832 - 1919
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 6
1877 - 1945
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 7
1861 - 1947
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 8
1883 - 1950
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 9
1837 - 1898
HPI: 63.85
Rank: 10
1875 - 1968
HPI: 63.84
Rank: 11
1886 - 1975
HPI: 63.82
Rank: 12
1842 - 1923
HPI: 63.72
Rank: 13