John Bennett Fenn

摘要

John Bennett Fenn, who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, died on December 10, 2010 aged 93. Born in New York City on June 15,1917, he graduated in 1937 from Berea College in Kentucky and earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University in 1940. He then worked in industry (Monsanto, Sharpies Chemical, and Experiment Inc) until 1954, when he was appointed as the director of an Office of Naval Research Project administered by Princeton University; some years later he became Professor in Princeton's Department of Engineering.