The British chemist and physicist Francis William Aston (1877-1945) invented the mass spectrograph and discovered the isotopic complexity of the elements. Francis Aston was born on Sept. 1, 1877, at Harborne, Birmingham, where his father was a metal...

Francis W. Aston was an English chemist and physicist whose motto--"Make more, more, and yet more measurements"--summed up the hard work and dedication he brought to a lifetime of achievement. Among his most important contributions were detailed...

Aston was born in Harbonne, England, on September 1, 1877. His father was a farmer and metal merchant and his mother, the daughter of a gun-maker. He attended Malvern and Mason's Colleges and spent the years between 1903 and 1908 as a research student...

1877-1945 British chemist and physicist who was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for discoveries and research in mass spectrography. Aston invented the mass spectrograph in 1919. His spectrographic observations led him to put forward the...

Francis William Aston (born Harborne, Birmingham, September 1 1877; died Cambridge, November 20 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 a...