Klaus Biemann

Klaus Biemann
Born(1926-11-02)November 2, 1926
Innsbruck, Austria
DiedJune 2, 2016(2016-06-02) (aged 89)
Alma materUniversity of Innsbruck
Ph.D. Organic Chemistry 1951
Known forMars Viking mass spectrometer[2]
AwardsBenjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry (2007)
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1977))
Scientific career
FieldsMass spectrometry
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Academic advisorsGeorge Büchi
Doctoral studentsJohn M. Hayes[1]
Jack T. Watson

Klaus Biemann (November 2, 1926 – June 2, 2016)[3][4] was an Austrian-American professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5] His work centered on structural analysis in organic and biochemistry. He has been called the "father of organic mass spectrometry"[6] but was particularly noted for his role in advancing protein sequencing with tandem mass spectrometry[7] following pioneering work conducted in this area by Michael Barber.[8]

  1. ^ Hayes, John Michael (1966). Techniques for high resolution mass spectrometric analysis of organic constituents of terrestrial and extraterrestrial samples (PhD thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OCLC 18679992. ProQuest 302307231. (subscription required)
  2. ^ Biemann K (2007). "On the ability of the Viking gas chromatograph–mass spectrometer to detect organic matter". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 (25): 10310–3. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10410310B. doi:10.1073/pnas.0703732104. PMC 1965509. PMID 17548829.
  3. ^ The Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry: Volume 9, page 30
  4. ^ Klaus Biemann, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 89
  5. ^ "In Memoriam: Klaus Biemann (1926–2016)". Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 27 (10): 1583–1589. 2016. Bibcode:2016JASMS..27.1583.. doi:10.1007/s13361-016-1470-5. ISSN 1044-0305. S2CID 25833096.
  6. ^ Chung, Deborah D. L. (2006). The Road to Scientific Success: Inspiring Life Stories of Prominent Researchers (Road to Scientific Success). World Scientific Publishing Company. ISBN 981-256-600-7.
  7. ^ Biemann, Klaus (2007). "Laying the groundwork for proteomics". International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 259 (1–3). Elsevier: 1–7. doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2006.08.002.
  8. ^ Morris HR, Panico M, Barber M, Bordoli RS, Sedgwick RD, Tyler A (1981). "Fast atom bombardment: a new mass spectrometric method for peptide sequence analysis". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 101 (2): 623–31. doi:10.1016/0006-291X(81)91304-8. PMID 7306100.