Francis William Aston

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Francis William Aston was born on September1, 1877, he 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 large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole number rule. He died November 20, 1945.