Fred W. McLafferty

(1923- ) lived in Omaha and Lincoln. Educator, chemist, researcher, known as one of the pioneers in application of mass spectrometry in chemistry, especially in the fields of gaseous ion reactions (the McLafferty arrangement), instrumentation, special techniques, computer data acquisition, reduction, and identification, and high resolution characteristics of biomolecules and gas phase protein conformers; co-authored 475 publications, including six books, and ranked as most cited analytical chemist in the nation between 1965 and 1978; recipient of more than 25 awards and honors, including seven from foreign organizations; and election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982. Consult Chemical & Engineering News, Vol 48 (November 30, 1970) 54 and Analytical Chemistry, Vol 52 (October 1980) 1279A and Organic Mass Spectrometry, Vol 23 (1988) 297-298 and Who's Who in America, Vol 2 (2003) 3520.

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