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Date of Birth
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11-May-1923
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Place of Birth
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Evanston
(Cook County, Illinois, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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McLafferty, Fred Warren McLafferty, Fred W. McLafferty
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Profession
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Chemist
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Fred Warren McLafferty is an American chemist known for his work in mass spectrometry. He is best known for the McLafferty rearrangement reaction that was observed with mass spectrometry. WIth Roland Gohlke, he pioneered the technique of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. He is also known for electron capture dissociation, a method of fragmenting gas phase ions.
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