The Aston Medal is awarded by the

British Mass Spectrometry Society The British Mass Spectrometry Society is a registered charity founded in 1964 that encourages participation in every aspect of mass spectrometry Mass spectrometry (MS) is an analytical technique that is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio ...

to individuals who have worked in the United Kingdom and have made outstanding contributions to our understanding of the biological, chemical, engineering, mathematical, medical, or physical sciences relating directly to mass spectrometry. The medal is named after one of Britain's founders of mass spectrometry and 1922 Nobel prize winner

Francis William Aston Francis William Aston FRS (1 September 1877 – 20 November 1945) was a British chemist and physicist who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes in many non-radioactive elements a ...

. The award is made sporadically, with no more than one medal being awarded each year. Recipients of this honour receive a gold-plated medal with a portrait of Francis Aston as well as an award certificate.

Recipients

* 1989 – Allan Maccoll * 1990 –

John H. Beynon John H. Beynon FRS (29 December 1923 – 24 August 2015) was a Welsh chemist and physicist known for his work in mass spectrometry. Education and military service Beynon was born in the Welsh coal-mining town of Ystalyfera and was the older o ...

* 1996 – Brian Green * 1998 – Keith Jennings * 1999 – Dai Games * 2003 –

Colin Pillinger Colin Trevor Pillinger, (; 9 May 1943 – 7 May 2014) was an English planetary scientist. He was a founding member of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute at Open University in Milton Keynes, he was also the principal inves ...

* 2005 – Tom Preston * 2006 – John Todd * 2008 – Robert Bateman * 2010 –

Richard Evershed Richard Evershed is a Professor of Biogeochemistry and Fellow of the Royal Society. Education and career Evershed attended St Ivo School, St Ives in the late 1960s and graduated in 1978 from Nottingham Trent University (Trent Polytechnic, Nottin ...

* 2011 –

Carol Robinson Dame Carol Vivien Robinson, (née Bradley; born 10 April 1956Anon (2015) ) is a British chemist and former President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2018–2020). She was a Royal Society Research Professor and is the Dr Lee's Professor ...

* 2013 – Tony Stace * 2017 –

R. Graham Cooks Robert Graham Cooks is the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the Aston Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry at Purdue University. He is an ISI Highly Cited Chemist, with over 1,000 publications and an H-index of 134. Educatio ...

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Landmarks in the last 50 years of British Mass Spectrometry
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