Fred McLafferty
American chemist and Purple Heart medal recipient
Fred Warren McLafferty (May 11, 1923 – December 26, 2021) was an American chemist known for his work in mass spectrometry. He was best known for the McLafferty rearrangement reaction that was observed with mass spectrometry.[2] With Roland Gohlke, he pioneered the technique of gas chromatography–mass spectrometry.[3] He is also known for electron capture dissociation, a method of fragmenting gas phase ions.[4] In 1982, he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Fred McLafferty | |
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| Born | Fred Warren McLafferty May 11, 1923 Evanston, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | December 26, 2021 (aged 98) Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Nebraska Cornell University |
| Known for | Mass Spectrometry |
| Awards | ACS Award in Chemical Instrumentation (1972 ) Fisher Award (1981) ACS Nichols Gold Medal (1984 ) Oesper Award (1985 ) Sir J.J. Thomson Gold Medal (1985 ) Field and Franklin Award (1989) ASMS Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry Award (2003) Lavoisier Medal (2004)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemist |
| Institutions | Purdue University Cornell University |
| Doctoral students | I. Jonathan Amster |
McLafferty died on December 26, 2021 in Ithaca, New York at the age of 98.[5]
References
change- ↑ "Seven Cornellians receive prestigious national and international honors". Cornell Chronicle. December 3, 2004. Retrieved 2014-08-28.
- ↑ F. W. McLafferty (1959). "Mass Spectrometric Analysis. Molecular Rearrangements". Analytical Chemistry. 31 (1): 82–87. doi:10.1021/ac60145a015.
- ↑ Gohlke, Roland S.; McLafferty, Fred W. (1993). "Early gas chromatography/mass spectrometry". Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 4 (5): 367–371. doi:10.1016/1044-0305(93)85001-E. PMID 24234933. S2CID 33972992.
- ↑ Zubarev, R. A.; Kelleher, N. L.; McLafferty, F. W. (1998). "Electron Capture Dissociation of Multiply Charged Protein Cations - a Nonergodic Process". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 120 (13): 3265–3266. doi:10.1021/ja973478k.
- ↑ Fred W. McLafferty