OK - there we go! This is going to be my first post and I have choosen to write about an interview i recently read. Its from 2008 and illuminates the life and academic carrier of one of the other mass spec master (besides me ;) ) Professor Brain Chait.
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Apart from his scientific accomplishments he talks about this school time and the inhumane situtation in South Africa during the 1950s. A time during which rassistic apartheid laws got applied in south african soceity.
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Since he has been contributing to the mass spec community for more then 30year he also worked with radioactive ionization sources, such as Californium-252 (Cf252). These plasma desorption sources are by based on nuclear fission of Cf252, which produces fission neutrons which are being adsorbed by the analyte and knock off electrons.
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Quite encouraging was the end of the interview were Prof. Chait relativizies his appoarches, although there have been awesome, as none Einsteinian stuff.
Wish being in such state at some point.
If you'd like to find out more about Prof. Chait or the research his is currently conducting visit
Rockefeller University New York
