biography
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Aston, Francis (William)
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| lived:
| (1877–1945)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Birmingham, West Midlands, C England, UK. He studied at Birmingham and Cambridge, and was noted for his work on isotopes. He invented the mass spectrograph in 1919, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1922. The Aston dark space in electronic discharges is named after him. |
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