What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: Francis William Aston 1877-1945 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1922. Lived both here and at Tennal House, opposite 1877-1910 Recorded plaque organisation: Birmingham Civic Society.
Francis William Aston was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922 for his discovery of isotopes using mass spectroscopy techniques, significantly advancing the field of atomic physics.
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