A Conversation with Fred W. McLafferty

The Oral History Project of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University has a 90 minute streaming video interview of mass spectrometry pioneer Fred McLafferty (Apple Quicktime required).

Blog this Article

The on-line Journal of Chemical Physics has a "Blog this Article" button, for example:

Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization and fragmentation of molecular beams: NO, I₂, benzene, and butadiene

J. Chem. Phys. 71, pp. 1359-1371 (1979)

http://link.aip.org/link/?JCPSA6/71/1359/1

Wikipedia Statistics

Here is a site that produces a graph of hit counts for Wikipedia articles. For example mass spectrometry had 43319 hits in February, about one to two thousand hits per day (via).

FBI's New Technology Revolutionizes DNA Analysis

From National Public Radio's Morning Edition, January 28, 2008:

"The newest wrinkle [in forensic DNA analysis] involves a rather innocuous-looking machine called a mass spectrometer, which is, in essence, a glorified scale that weighs individual molecules."

(audio and transcript)

Academic Interviews

Excellent and refreshingly candid advice on academic job interviews (via).

Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses

Google Books has a digitized and searchable versions of J. J. Thomson's Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses both the 1913 Edition as well as the 1921 Edition. There are also downloadable PDFs of the books.

Chromatography Video

Here is another video in need of a mashup.

Computational MS Demo

From the University of California at San Diego.


Update: direct link to above page.

Ion Mobility Separation Animation

A well-crafted animation of ion trapping and mobility separation. It lacks a soundtrack, but it's easy enough to add one.

Scivee: Science TV

YouTube with science videos, a project with the Public Library of Science, the National Science Foundation, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (via).

Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry and the Tour de France

Italian Christian Moreni tested positive for synthetic testosterone with the isotope ratio mass spectrometry procedure.

Cyclotrons, Synchrotrons, Mass Spectrometers, and Cloud Chambers

A physics lecture by Prof. Walter Lewin of MIT.



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Blogroll Cleaning

TIme for a blogroll cleaning. The old blogroll is in the comments.

MALDI Sample Preparation: The Ultra Thin Layer Method

A video tutorial article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments on MALDI sample preparation from Brian Chait's Mass Spectrometry Group at Rockefeller University. JoVE is an online biological sciences video journal.

Really Old Peanuts

Preceramic Adoption of Peanut, Squash, and Cotton in Northern Peru - agriculture, archaeology, and accelerator mass spectrometry.