Professor John B. Fenn, 1917-2010
Professor John B. Fenn, who received the the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 for his work in electrospray ionization, passed away on Friday December 10 at the age of 93.
His work was instrumental in enabling the rapid analysis of the structure of proteins and other biomolecules via mass spectrometry, and Prof. Fenn remained a mainstay at scientific conferences and an active researcher well into his 90s.
You can see Prof. Fenn’s Nobel Lecure, “Electrospray Wings for Molecular Elephants” on the official website of the Nobel Prize.
A remarkable scientist and an inspiration to many, there is no doubt that John Fenn will be greatly missed.
