Francis W. Aston's Birth Card: The 10 of Diamonds

In the record

Francis William Aston FRS (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) 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 many non-radioactive elements and for his enunciation of the whole number rule. The birth-card coordinate for September 1 is the 10 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1922 Chemistry prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1922 The 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

The 10 of Diamonds coordinate

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Francis W. Aston in the public record

He was a fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Francis Aston was born in Harborne, now part of Birmingham, on 1 September 1877. He was the third child and second son of William Aston and Fanny Charlotte Hollis. He was educated at the Harborne Vicarage School and later Malvern College in Worcestershire where he was a boarder. In 1893 Francis William Aston began his university studies at Mason College (which was then external college of University of London) where he was taught physics by John Henry Poynting and chemistry by Frankland and Tilden. From 1896 on he conducted additional research on organic chemistry in a private laboratory at his father's house. In 1898 he started as a student of Frankland financed by a Forster Scholarship; his work concerned optical properties of tartaric acid compounds. He started to work on fermentation chemistry at the school of brewing in Birmingham and was employed by W.

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Francis William Aston FRS (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) 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 many non-radioactive elements and for his enunciation of the whole number rule.

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Also on the record

1. Butler & Co.
2. Brewery in 1900.
3. This period of employment ended in 1903 when he returned to the University of Birmingham under Poynting as an Associate.
4. With a scholarship from the University of Birmingham, he pursued research in physics following the discovery of X-rays and radioactivity in the mid-1890s.

Other laureates with this card

• Annie Ernaux — 2022 Literature
• Charles Edouard Guillaume — 1920 Physics
• Charles Glover Barkla — 1917 Physics
• Elihu Root — 1912 Peace
• George J. Stigler — 1982 Economic Sciences
• Gerardus 't Hooft — 1999 Physics
• Giorgos Seferis — 1963 Literature
• Hans von Euler-Chelpin — 1929 Chemistry
• Herbert S. Gasser — 1944 Physiology or Medicine
• James A. Mirrlees — 1996 Economic Sciences
• John H. Northrop — 1946 Chemistry
• John H. Van Vleck — 1977 Physics
• 8 more laureates share this card.

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