Francis William Aston ( 1877 - 1945)

Ok today, lets take a qucik look at the scientist we have got on file:

 

Name: Francis William Aston.
DOB: 1/Sept/1877
Died: 20/Nov/1945
Discoveries: Worked on Isotopes and its constituents.
Nobel Prize: 1922. Nobel Prize of Chemistry.

Francis W. Aston was an experimental physicist who was born in Harborne,England on the first day of September 1877 and died on the 20th of November 1945 in Cambridge.

He was privilege to work with :

* Frankland ---- 1898
* Poynting ----- 1903
* J.J Thomson ----- 1910

He had a vast and enormous experiences in vacuum techniques that made possible the evidence of the Isotopic Constitution of stable element. In 1913, he accomplished the partial separation of Isotopes by the method of diffusion.

In 1922, Francis received the Nobel Prize of Chemistry. For a full knowledge of his work, consult his book titled "Mass Spectra and Isotopes" (1942)