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Alfred Benninghoven

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Alfred Benninghoven
Born(1932-02-18)February 18, 1932
DiedDecember 22, 2017(2017-12-22) (aged 85)
NationalityGerman
Alma materUniversity of Paris
University of Cologne
Known forstatic secondary ion mass spectrometry
Scientific career
Fieldsmass spectrometry
InstitutionsUniversity of Münster

Alfred Benninghoven (8 February 1932 in Frankfurt - 22 December 2017[1]) was a German physicist and mass spectrometry researcher known for his work on static secondary ion mass spectrometry.[2]

Career and Research

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Benninghoven graduated from the University of Cologne in 1961 where he worked with Fritz Kirchner (1896–1967) and completed his habilitation in surface physics in Cologne two years later.[2] He first worked as professor in Cologne from 1965 to 1973 until he moved to a full professor position in experimental physics at the University of Münster in 1972.[2] He worked on static secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) and its applications, and developed SIMS instruments. In 1989 he co-founded IonTOF, a company that became a world-leader in TOF-SIMS instrumentation.[2] He has written over 300 scientific articles and several books on the topic of SIMS, many of which have become reference works on SIMS.[2]

For his work, he has received the Technology Transfer prize (German Ministry of Education and Research) and the 1984 Gaede-Langmuir Prize (American Vacuum Society) for the development of concepts and instrumentation in static secondary ion mass spectrometry and the demonstration of its usefulness in manifold applications.[3] In 1990 he shared the Fritz-Pregl-Medaille of the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry with Wilhelm Simon. From 1977 to 1983, he was president of the German Vacuum Society (part of the German Physical Society).

References

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  1. ^ "Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Alfred Benninghoven: Traueranzeige". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 2017-12-30. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
  2. ^ a b c d e Jane Gale, P. (2015). "Alfred Benninghoven". The Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry. pp. 15–16. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-100379-4.00053-8. ISBN 978-0-08-100379-4.
  3. ^ "Winners of the Gaede-Langmuir Award".