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Fred McLafferty
American chemist and Purple Heart medal recipient
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Lived 1923–2021, aged 98United States
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Updated 2026-06-23
Fred Warren McLafferty was 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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