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Aston

American  
[as-tuhn] / ˈæs tən /

noun

  1. Francis William, 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1922.


Aston British  
/ ˈæstən /

noun

  1. Francis William. 1877–1945, English physicist and chemist, who developed the first mass spectrograph, using it to investigate the isotopic structures of elements: Nobel prize for chemistry 1922

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