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== 19th Century ==
see [[wikipedia:History of mass spectrometry]]
 
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:'''1886'''
::Eugen Goldstein [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Goldstein] observes canal rays.
 
:'''1898'''
::Wilhelm Wien [http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1911/wien-bio.html] demonstrates that canal rays can be deflected using strong electric and magnetic fields.
 
== 20th Century ==
 
:'''1905'''
::J. J. Thomson [http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1906/thomson-bio.html] begins his study of positive rays.[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0941901319?v=glance]
 
:'''1919'''
::Francis Aston [http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1922/aston-bio.html] constructs the first velocity focusing mass spectrograph with [[mass resolving power]] of 130 (Aston, F. W. A positive-ray spectrograph. ''Phil. Mag.'' '''1919''', 38, 707-715).
 
:'''1922'''
::Francis Aston [http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/1922/aston-bio.html] is awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry "for his discovery, by means of his mass spectrograph, of isotopes, in a large number of non-radioactive elements, and for his enunciation of the whole-number rule."
 
== 21st Century ==
 
:'''2002'''
::John Fenn [http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/2002/index.html] and Koichi Tanaka [http://www.nobel.se/chemistry/laureates/2002/index.html] are awarded one-quarter of the Nobel Prize in chemistry each "for the development of soft desorption ionisation methods ... for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules."
 
=External Links=
 
:*[http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/ms/history.html Bristol History of Mass Spectrometry]
 
:*[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0941901319?v=glance Measuring Mass: From Positive Rays to Proteins by Michael A. Grayson (Editor)]
 
:*[http://masspec.scripps.edu/MSHistory/mshisto.php Scripps History of Mass Spectrometry]
 
:*[[Wikipedia:Mass spectrometry]]

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