It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it.
Francis William Aston Quotes
The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.
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| Birth: | 1st September, 1877 |
| Death: | 20th November, 1945 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Chemist, Physicist |
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Francis William Aston 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 was a fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
