Fred McLafferty, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Fred McLafferty

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

Date of Birth: 11-May-1923

Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, United States

Profession: chemist, university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About 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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