Francis William Aston FRS 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. He was a fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow
![“If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart as they are in the normal lead, the strings of atoms so formed would reach over six million million miles.” quote by Francis William Aston](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e13/francis-william-aston-44310_atoms_if-the-atoms-in-a-decimetre-cube-of-lead_2343157.png)
![“[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.” quote by Francis William Aston](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/247/francis-william-aston-44310_air_s-uppose-you-make-a-hole-in-an-ordinary_2762745.jpg)
![“Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction.” quote by Francis William Aston](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/95d/francis-william-aston-44310_atomic-energy_should-the-research-worker-of-the-future_1627368.png)
![“Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once…” quote by Francis William Aston](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4ff/francis-william-aston-44310_atom_should-the-research-worker-of-the-future_1221591.png)
