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John Fenn

1917 - 2010

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John Bennett Fenn (June 15, 1917 – December 10, 2010) was an American professor of analytical chemistry who was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002. He shared half of the award with Koichi Tanaka for their work in mass spectrometry. The other half went to Kurt Wüthrich. Fenn's contributions specifically related to the development of electrospray ionization, now a commonly used technique for large molecules and routine liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Fenn is the 26th most popular chemist (up from 207th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,298th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Chemist.

John Fenn is most famous for his discovery of the Fenn Treasure, which he found in 1982.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, John Fenn ranks 26 out of 602. Before him are Adolf Windaus, Ernst Chain, Eduard Buchner, John Macleod, George Washington Carver, and Fritz Haber. After him are Friedrich Wöhler, Wilhelm Ostwald, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Hans Adolf Krebs, Otto Wallach, and Alexander R. Todd.

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Among people born in 1917, John Fenn ranks 6. Before him are Indira Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Ferdinand Marcos, Park Chung-hee, and Heinrich Böll. After him are Arthur C. Clarke, Rodney Robert Porter, Ilya Prigogine, Frederica of Hanover, James Rainwater, and Christian de Duve. Among people deceased in 2010, John Fenn ranks 2. Before him is José Saramago. After him are Leslie Nielsen, Juan Antonio Samaranch, J. D. Salinger, Lech Kaczyński, Tony Curtis, Ronnie James Dio, James Black, Gloria Stuart, Louise Bourgeois, and Eddie Fisher.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Fenn ranks 175 out of 20,380. Before him are Carl Rogers (1902), Richard Feynman (1918), Sheldon Lee Glashow (1932), Tupac Shakur (1971), Steve McQueen (1930), and Dwayne Johnson (1972). After him are Priscilla Presley (1945), Edwin Hubble (1889), Vin Diesel (1967), Margaret Brown (1867), Debbie Harry (1945), and Stonewall Jackson (1824).

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Among CHEMISTS In United States

Among chemists born in United States, John Fenn ranks 5. Before him are John Stith Pemberton (1831), Edwin McMillan (1907), Raymond Davis Jr. (1914), and George Washington Carver (1864). After him are F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), Linus Pauling (1901), Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915), John Howard Northrop (1891), Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), and Robert S. Mulliken (1896).

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