James Douglas Morrison
AO,
FAA
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,
FRSE,
FRACI (1924–2013) was a Scottish born Australian physical chemist. Born and educated in Glasgow (BSc 1945, PhD 1948), he moved to Australia in 1949 to work with the
CSIRO. There he switched from X-Ray crystallography to
mass spectrometry as a research topic.
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In 1967 he was appointed as the foundation chair of physical chemistry at
La Trobe University
La Trobe University is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its main campus is located in the suburb of Bundoora. The university was established in 1964, becoming the third university in the state of Victoria a ...
, where he was a professor of chemistry until retiring in 1989.
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He is known for his work in
mass spectrometry and he is one of the inventors of the
triple quadrupole mass spectrometer
A triple quadrupole mass spectrometer (TQMS), is a tandem mass spectrometer consisting of two quadrupole mass analyzers in series, with a (non-mass-resolving) radio frequency (RF)–only quadrupole between them to act as a cell for collision-in ...
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Australian chemists
Mass spectrometrists
Officers of the Order of Australia
Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science
1924 births
2013 deaths
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