Dr. F.W. Aston – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Dr. F.W. Aston, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Dr. F.W. Aston
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Dr. F.W. Aston, the British physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 for using his mass spectrograph to show that many elements exist as mixtures of isotopes. He built the instrument at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, where it let researchers separate atoms by mass. The record gives no date, and the name comes from unverified Bain News Service data on the negative or its caption card, so the occasion of this sitting is uncertain. Bain's agency photographed newsworthy figures in the early twentieth century, and this portrait preserves the likeness of a scientist whose work reshaped chemistry.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,691 × 5,072 px · prints to 12 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-36510 |
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