On This Day – Sep 01 : Francis William Aston born

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Aston developed the mass spectrometer, a device that separates molecular fragments of different mass and measures them with remarkable accuracy. Using the spectrometer, he discovered that neon had two isotopes, 20Ne and 21Ne, and was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize for this work.

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