Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2307

FRANCIS WILLIAM ASTON (1877-1945) Isotopes. E. Arnold 1922 viii, 152 pp., illus., 4 plates. 21.6 cm.

Aston, a British physicist, worked with fellow physicist, J. J. Thomson (1856-1940), in research that led to the development of the mass spectrograph. An aircraft engineer during World War I, Aston returned to Cambridge after the war and worked under Lord Rutherford in the famous Cavendish Laboratory where he continued to work until his death, making many important contributions to the study of the chemical elements. He received the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1922 for his discovery of the isotopes of several nonradioactive elements, and he reports on that work in this basic book on nuclear physics. His work has had far-reaching effects, and refinements of it have led to the use of isotopes in nuclear medicine.

Cited references: Cushing A293

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