2002
John B. Fenn – Biographical
Biographical
My father, Herbert Bennett Fenn, the eldest of three children was born and raised on a farm in northern Delaware which his father operated but did not own. I never saw that farm but I vividly remember my Grandmother’s frequent reference to a single chestnut tree in the front yard, so large and prolific that…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 Further reading Information on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002: http://nobelprize.org Mass Spectrometry: Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Richard B. Cole (ed.), John Wiley & Sons, Jan 15, 1997 Mass Spectrometry of Proteins and Peptides. Methods in Molecular Biology by J.r. Chapman (ed.), Humana Press, 2000 NMR:…
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2002 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2002 “for the development of methods for identification and structure analyses of biological macromolecules” with one half jointly to John B. Fenn and Koichi Tanaka “for their development of soft desorption ionisation…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Professor Astrid Gräslund of the , December 10, 2002. Translation of the Swedish text. Professor Astrid Gräslund delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, What would life be without proteins! Proteins are…
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