Jim Shannon Mass spectrometrist

摘要

Jim Shannon's name is inextricably associated with mass spectrometry, as his scientific career was devoted to its development and applications to organic, biological and coordination chemistry. Jim was born in Adelaide on 11 July 1926 and studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating in 1949 with first class honours in Chemistry. After some further postgraduate work, in 1952 he went to Imperial College London for his PhD, as the recipient of a British Council Fellowship. He returned to Australia in 1955 to a research position at CSIRO in what was to become the Division of Coal Research in Sydney.