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What was Francis William Aston's profession?

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Francis William Aston was an English chemist and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 for his discovery of isotopes, the different forms of a chemical element that have the same atomic number but different atomic mass. Aston developed a mass spectrometer, which allowed him to identify the isotopes of elements and their relative abundances.
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