Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03

Francis William Aston Biography and Timeline

Follow Francis William Aston through 2 dated historical records for Great Britain.

Francis William Aston, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

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1921–1922Years on this page

1921

Uranium Isotopes

Physicist · Cambridge · Science / Physics

Mass spectrograph work supports isotope studies of heavy elements.

Role range: 1877-1945

1922

Nobel Prize

Chemist · Stockholm · Science / Chemistry

Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering isotopes in many non-radioactive elements with the mass spectrograph and for formulating the whole-number rule.

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