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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