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John Fenn

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Also known as John Bennett Fenn, John B. Fenn

American analytical chemist (1917–2010)

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John Bennett Fenn was an American chemist and university teacher born in New York City in 1917. He received his education at Yale University and Berea College. Throughout his career, Fenn was employed by both Yale University and Virginia Commonwealth University. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Fenn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Humboldt Prize. His field of work was chemistry, and he spoke English. He resided in Hackensack, Berea, New York City, and Anniston. John Fenn died in Richmond in 2010.

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Type
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Country
GB
Active from
1953-05-23

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Listeners · Last.fm

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5 total works indexed

  1. Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple

    · 1996 · cited 204,297x

  2. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,514x

  3. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,878x

  4. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,530x

  5. The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    · 1992 · cited 29,118x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Chemistry2002

    “for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules”

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Encyclopedic overview

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. Early in his career, he studied the field of jet propulsion at Project SQUID and focused on molecular beams. He finished his career with more than 100 publications, including one book.

Fenn was born in New York City, and moved to Kentucky with his family during the Great Depression. Fenn did his undergraduate work at Berea College, and received his PhD from Yale. He worked in industry at Monsanto and at private research labs before moving to academic posts including Yale and Virginia Commonwealth University.

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