John Fenn
American analytical chemist (1917–2010)
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United StatesHe won a Nobel Prize for inventing a way to weigh molecules that were previously too big to measure, then lost a lawsuit to his own university over whether he'd been honest about how useful it would be.
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John Bennett Fenn was born in New York City in 1917 and moved to Kentucky during the Great Depression. After undergraduate work at Berea College and a PhD from Yale, he spent years in industry at Monsanto and private labs, then early academic work on jet propulsion and molecular beams. His late-career breakthrough was electrospray ionization — a technique that made mass spectrometry work for large molecules and became routine in labs worldwide. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Koichi Tanaka for that work, the other half going to Kurt Wüthrich. The recognition came with a bi…
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