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Discover the Origins of Mass Spectrometry

Test your knowledge on the fascinating history of Mass Spectrometry with our engaging quiz! Uncover the milestones and key figures that shaped this essential analytical technique.

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Who discovered the electron?

JJ Thomson 1897

Albert Einstein 1918

Walter Kaufmann 1906

In 1921, the instrument that we now consider to be the first mass spectrometer was invented, but what was it's original name?

Parabola spectrograph

Thomson spectrograph

Aston Analyser

In 1922 which Scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of many isotopes by Mass Spec?

Wilhelm Wien

Ernest Rutherford

Francis Aston

What year was the concept of ToF-MS (Time-of-Flight) presented and where?

1959 UK

1937 Germany

1945 USA

In 1959 GC-MS was born, but who invented it?

University of Cambridge

Dow Chemicals

LKB Instruments

By the 1960's MS was buzzing and the British Mass Spectrometry Society was born! When and what year was the BMSS meeting held?

1965 London

1962 Manchester

1968 Cambridge

Biomolecule ionization was pioneered by which scientist in the 1980s?

John B. Fenn

Koichi Tanaka

Kurt Wüthrich

Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI) - was first coined as a term in...

1983

1985

1990

Enke and Yost’s report of the triple quadrupole mass spectrometer was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society in what year?

1982

1978

1993

Since the initial concept over a 100yrs ago, mass analysers can now be broadly broken down into 6 categories - which is NOT one

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