Fred McLafferty

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Fred Warren McLafferty (born March 11, 1923 in Evanston (Illinois) ) is an American chemist specializing in mass spectrometry and gas chromatography .

Live and act

Lafferty studied until his bachelor's degree in 1943 at the University of Nebraska . He served as an infantryman in Europe during World War II (where he received high honors, including the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart ), studied after the war at the University of Nebraska with a master's degree in 1947 and was at Cornell University with William in 1950 Miller is doing her PhD in organic chemistry. As a post-graduate student , he was with RL Shriner at the University of Iowa and joined Dow Chemical in 1950 , where he was head of mass spectrometry and gas chromatography. In 1956 he became director of Dow's Eastern Research Lab in Framingham . In 1964 he became Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University and in 1968 Debye Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is known for pioneering work in mass spectrometry , which he coupled with gas chromatography for the first time with Roland Gohlke in the 1950s . At Dow he developed the first GC / MS devices ( gas chromatography with mass spectrometry coupling ) and used them to determine the structure of organic molecules. In doing so, he discovered the McLafferty rearrangement named after him . In 1998 he also developed the method of electron capture dissociation (ECD), the fragmentation into ions in the gas phase. At Cornell University, he developed databases for mass spectroscopy data and their evaluation, among other things using methods of artificial intelligence (including the PBM program, Probability Based Matching of Mass Spectra).

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1982), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1980) and the Accademia dei XL . He received the Chemical Pioneer Award in 1996, the Heyrovský Medal in 1999 , the Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science in 1992 , the JJ Thomson Medal in 1985, the Frank H. Field and Joe L. Franklin Award for Outstanding Achievement in Mass Spectrometry in 1989, and in 1971 Chemical Instrumentation Award from the American Chemical Society, the Giulio Natta Gold Medal in 1999, the Torbern Bergman Medal of the Swedish Chemical Society in 2001 , the Oesper Award in 1985, the SC Lind Award in 1986 and the William H. Nichols Medal in 1984 . He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Nebraska , Purdue University and the University of Liège and is an honorary member of the Italian Chemical Society.

He has been married since 1948 and has five children.

Fonts

  • with Frantisek Turecek: Interpretation of Mass Spectra Data , University Science Books, Sausalito 1993
  • with R. Venkataraghavan: Mass spectral correlations , Columbus, Ohio, American Chemical Society 1982
  • as editor with others: Wiley Registry of Mass Spectra Data , 9th Edition, Wiley 2009
  • Mass Spectrometric Analysis. Molecular Rearrangements , Anal. Chem. 31, 1959, pp. 82-87
  • with Gohlke: Early gas chromatography / mass spectrometry , In: J Am Soc Mass Spectrom ., Volume 4, 1993, pp. 367-371
  • with RA Zubarev, NL Kelleher: Electron Capture Dissociation of Multiply Charged Protein Cations - a Nonergodic Process , J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 120, 1998, pp. 3265-3266

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Fred W. McLafferty at academictree.org, accessed on 2 January of 2019.
  3. ↑ Lista mottagare. Svenska Kemisamfundet, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME McLafferty, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McLafferty, Fred Warren
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Evanston (Illinois)