Fred McLafferty

Chemist, Academic

1923 –

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Who is Fred McLafferty?

Fred Warren McLafferty is an American chemist known for his work in mass spectrometry. He is best known for the McLafferty rearrangement reaction that was observed with mass spectrometry. WIth Roland Gohlke, he pioneered the technique of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. He is also known for electron capture dissociation, a method of fragmenting gas phase ions.

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Born
May 11, 1923
Evanston
Also known as
  • McLafferty
  • Fred Warren McLafferty
  • Fred W. McLafferty
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, Cornell University
    Chemistry
    ( - 1950)
Lived in
  • Ithaca

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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