- Fred McLafferty
Infobox Scientist
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name = Fred W. McLafferty
birth_date = birth date and age|1923|5|11
birth_place =Evanston, Illinois
residence =United States
nationality =United States
field =Chemist
work_institutions =Purdue University Cornell University
alma_mater =University of Nebraska Cornell University
doctoral_advisor =
doctoral_students =
known_for =Mass Spectrometry
prizes = ACS Award in Chemical Instrumentation (1972 ) Fisher Award (1981) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1982 ) 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)
footnotes =Fred Warren McLafferty is an American chemist known for his work in
mass spectrometry . He is best known for theMcLafferty rearrangement reaction that was observed with mass spectrometry.cite journal | author = F. W. McLafferty| title = Mass Spectrometric Analysis. Molecular Rearrangements| journal = Annal. Chem. | volume = 31 | issue = 1 | pages = 82–87 | year = 1959 | doi = 10.1021/ac60145a015] WIth Roland Gohlke, he pioneered the technique ofgas chromatography-mass spectrometry .Gohlke, R. S.; McLafferty, F. W., [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/1044-0305(93)85001-E Early gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.] " J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom." 1993, "4", (5), 367-371.] He is also known forelectron capture dissociation , a method of fragmenting gas phase ions. [Zubarev, R. A.; Kelleher, N. L.; McLafferty, F. W. Electron Capture Dissociation of Multiply Charged Protein Cations - a Nonergodic Process "J. Am. Chem. Soc." 1998, "120", 3265-3266.]Early life and education
Fred McLafferty was born in Evanston, Illinois in 1923, but attended grade school in
Omaha, Nebraska , graduating fromOmaha North High School in 1940.cite journal |author=Gross ML |title=Focus in honor of Fred McLafferty, 2003 Distinguished Contribution awardee, for the discovery of the "McLafferty Rearrangement" |journal=J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. |volume=15 |issue=7 |pages=951–5 |year=2004 |pmid=15234352 |doi=10.1016/j.jasms.2004.05.009] The urgent requirements ofWorld War II accelerated his undergraduate studies at theUniversity of Nebraska ; he obtained his B.S. degree in 1943 and thereafter entered the US Armed forces. He served in western europe during the invasion of Germany and was awarded theCombat Infantryman Badge , aPurple Heart , Five Bronze Star Medals and a
Presidential Unit Citation.He returned to the University of Nebraska in late 1945 and completed his M.S. degree in 1947. He went on to work under William Miller at
Cornell University where he earned his Ph.D. in 1950. He went on to apostdoctoral researcher position at theUniversity of Iowa with R.L. Shriner.Dow Chemical
He took a position at
Dow Chemical inMidland, Michigan in 1950 and was in charge of mass spectrometry and gas chromatography from 1950 to 1956. In 1956, he became the Director of Dow’s Eastern Research Lab inFramingham, Massachusetts . During this time, he developed the first GCMS instruments ] and developed techniques for determining the structure of organic molecules by mass spectrometry, most nobly in the discovery of what is now known as the McLafferty Rearrangement. ]Academic career
From 1964 to 1968, he was Professor of Chemistry at
Purdue University . In 1968, he returned to his "alma mater", Cornell University, to become thePeter J. W. Debye Professor of Chemistry. He was elected to theUnited States National Academy of Sciences in 1982.ee also
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McLafferty rearrangement
*Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
*Electron capture dissociation References
Bibliography
*cite book |author=Venkataraghavan, Rengachari; McLafferty, Fred W. |title=Mass spectral correlations |publisher=American Chemical Society |location=Columbus, OH |year=1982 |pages= |isbn=0-8412-0702-X |oclc= |doi=
*cite book |author=Heller, Stephen R.; McLafferty, Fred W.; Stauffer, Douglas B.; Stenhagen, Einar |title=The Wiley/NBS registry of mass spectral data |publisher=Wiley |location=New York |year=1989 |pages= |isbn=0-471-62886-7 |oclc= |doi=
*cite book |author=Stauffer, Douglas B.; McLafferty, Fred W. |title=The important peak index of the registry of mass spectral data |publisher=Wiley |location=New York |year=1991 |pages= |isbn=0-471-55270-4 |oclc= |doi=
*cite book |author=Tureček, František; McLafferty, Fred W. |title=Interpretation of mass spectra |publisher=University Science Books |location=Sausalito, Calif |year=1993 |pages= |isbn=0-935702-25-3 |oclc= |doi=External links
* [http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3525 A Conversation with Fred W. McLafferty]
* [http://www.chem.cornell.edu/faculty/index.asp?fac=37 Cornell Faculty Page]Thomson Medal Recipients
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