Brian Green (chemist)
Brian Noel Green OBE (25 December 1933 -17 December 2021) was an English mass spectrometrist.
Early life and career
[edit]Green was born in Urmston, Manchester, UK on Christmas Day 1933. He attended Manchester Grammar School and in 1955 graduated from Manchester University. Green had a long career at Metropolitan-Vickers before moving to VG MICROMASS in 1972.[1]
Honours and awards
[edit]In 1985, Green was awarded the Order of the British Empire for contributions to mass spectrometry,[2] and in 1996, the British Mass Spectrometry Society awarded him the Aston Medal.[3]
Legacy
[edit]In Green's honour, the British Mass Spectrometry Society now presents the B. N. Green Prize to an early career scientist with the best flash oral presentation at their annual meeting.[2]
Notable works
[edit]- Ferrige, A.G., Seddon, M.J., Green, B.N., Jarvis, S.A., Skilling, J. and Staunton, J. (1992), Disentangling electrospray spectra with maximum entropy. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom., 6: 707-711. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.1290061115
- The Analysis of Human Haemoglobin Variants Using Mass Spectrometry Micromass UK Ltd: Wilmslow (2021 ISBN 978-1-5262-0895-8)
References
[edit]- ^ Elliot, Martin (September 1996). "An Appreciation of Brian Green". Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 10 (12): 1563–1565. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0231(199609)10:12<1563::AID-RCM700>3.0.CO;2-3. ISSN 0951-4198.
- ^ a b "B. N. Green Prize". British Mass Spectrometry Society. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
- ^ Mallet, Tony (September 1996). "British Mass Spectrometry Society: Aston Medal Award to Brian Green". Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 10 (12): 1566. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0231(199609)10:12<1566::AID-RCM1011>3.0.CO;2-F. ISSN 0951-4198.
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