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John Bennett Fenn Bio

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John Bennett Fenn:

John Bennett Fenn is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.

Birth:

June 15, 1917 Delaware, USA

Claim to Fame:

Fenn is an American chemist who shares half the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Koichi Tanaka for their development of a mass spectrometry technique to analyze biological macromolecules. He developed the electrospray ionization technique to ionize macromolecules without fracturing the molecule.

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