Francis William Aston, a man who won the Nobel Prize on 1922. He came up with a lot of information regarding isotopes of non-radioactive elements using the famous item so called "The Mass Spectrograph." A normal human being with lots of potential and intelligence making the impossible possible, he was really unique. He was born on September 1st, 1877 at Harborne, Birmingham, England. He passed away in Cambridge, in November 20th 1945. It was a big family, there were seven children in the family, and he was the third. Francis Williams was British; he was born and raised in England. He basically found out about the mass spectrograph, learned and discovered different types of isotopes. This device separates atoms or molecular fragments of different mass and measures the amount of masses with accuracy. He used this device to discover nuclide, also known as nuclear species that differ mass. .
Francis attended Harborne Vicarage High School, where he did fairly well, he mainly focused on chemistry, he loved science, and math was his worst subject. After High School, he moved on to Malvern College, and that's when he really found out about his love to science, and the sun started to shine for him. In 1894, he entered another school called Mason College, in this school he practiced and learned chemistry under Frankland and Tilden (Professors), and Physics under Poynting. He didn't have enough money for all these Colleges, he received a Forster scholarship in 1898 which then allowed him to go to College and work on the optical properties of tartaric acid derivatives. All the results and information regarding that type of work were published in 1901.
After high school, he didn't focus on any other subjects but science, physics, and chemistry. This was when he really started to learn a lot, and he was ready to take his life to a new level by doing something. He did have a few distractions such as; friends, a very outgoing person, and he very active.
Mass spectrometry has been described as the smallest scale in the world, not because of its size but because of the size of the things it weighs. Mass spectrometry, also called mass spectroscopy, is an instrumental approach that allows for the mass measurement of molecules. The five basic parts of a...
