Aston, Francis William, 1877-1945
Francis W. Aston papers and correspondence, 1911-1945.
This small group of papers includes research notebooks recording work on positive rays, 1911-1913; reports from his wartime work at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, 1917-1919. Also includes manuscript and typescript drafts of a few of Aston's publications, and offprints, 1919-1939, plus some typescripts of papers by other scientists. Correspondence and papers, 1935-1945, relating to his presidency of the International Union of Chemistry's Commission on Atoms, and correspondence received in chronological sequence relating to his scientific work (1914, 1922-1945, n.d), providing some documentation of his visits and conferences, especially a trip in 1992 to lecture at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Aston (1877-1945). Research assistant to Sir J. J. Thomson at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge in 1909. Invented the mass spectrograph at the Cavendish Lab after his return there in 1919, with which he was able to discover 212 of the naturally occurring isotopes. Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922. Also interested in astronomy and photography, becoming a member of various expeditions to study eclipses.
Aston, Francis William, 1877-1945
Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.)
International Union of Chemistry. Commission on Atoms.
Royal Aircraft Establishment (Great Britain).
Molecular beams.
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