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Francis William Aston

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[Wikipedia] 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

Quotes by Francis William Aston

The cosmical importance of this conclusion is profound and the possibilities it opens for the future very remarkable, greater in fact than…

Francis William Aston

Any

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Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,…

Francis William Aston

Atom

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Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release…

Francis William Aston

Atomic energy

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Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,…

Francis William Aston

Atomic energy

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If the atoms in [a] decimetre cube of lead were all put into a chain side by side the same distance apart…

Francis William Aston

Atoms

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The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large…

Francis William Aston

Astronomy

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It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than one-quarter of that of helium, but so…

Francis William Aston

Chemicals

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“Perhaps the most impressive illustration of all is to suppose that you could label the molecules in a tumbler of water. ...…

Francis William Aston

Amazing

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[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the…

Francis William Aston

Air

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