City's Nobel Prize winner gets blue plaque honour; A Nobel Prize winner and one of the first scientists to recognise the might of nuclear power, Francis Aston was honoured in his home city of Birmingham yesterday.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England) | September 4, 2007 | Copyright

Byline: Emma Brady reports

When it came to putting up a blue plaque at the birthplace of Francis William Aston, there was one slight problem. It had been demolished.

The dilemma was resolved by erecting the plaque on another nearby home that had been occupied by the family in Harborne.

It was due recognition for Aston, who won the coveted Nobel Prize for chemistry in November 1922 for his work in developing the mass spectrograph, a device used to separate atoms and identify isotopes for many common elements.

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