Henry M. Fales

Henry M. Fales
Born(1927-02-12)February 12, 1927
New York City, United States
DiedOctober 28, 2010(2010-10-28) (aged 82)
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
Alma materRutgers University
Known fornatural substances identification, bioanalytical chromatography and mass spectrometry
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsNational Institutes of Health
Doctoral advisorRoderick Barnes

Henry M. Fales (February 12, 1927, New York, NY – October 28, 2010, Silver Spring, MD) was an American organic chemist and mass spectrometrist.[1][2][3] He authored and co-authored over 350 scientific publications on natural substances and biochemistry.

Academic career

Fales obtained his PhD from Rutgers University. He worked at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, since 1954, first as Chief of the Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry and later as Chief of the Laboratory of Applied Mass Spectrometry.[4] Under his direction, the Laboratory of Chemistry in NHLBI became a world-renowned center for structural chemistry during the 1960s, integrating nmr, x-ray crystallography and mass spectrometry. Fales and coworkers also began a reference library of molecular weights which was incorporated into the Merck Index.[5]

He served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Mass Spectrometry, the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Analytical Chemistry and Bioanalytical Chemistry. He served on the advisory panel on Chemistry of the National Science Foundation. H. M. Fales held several functions in the board of directors of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry including president.[6]

Awards

Fales received several awards including Chromatographer of the Year of the Washington Chromatography Discussion Group (1973), DHEW Superior Service Awards (1973, 1986), the Hillebrand Prize from the Chemical Society of Washington in 1977, and a Professional Service Award of Alpha Chi Sigma, Washington, D.C. (1988).

See also

References

  1. ^ Markey, Sanford P. (2011). "Henry M. Fales, February 12, 1927–October 28, 2010". Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 22 (4): 789–790. Bibcode:2011JASMS..22..789M. doi:10.1007/s13361-011-0078-z. ISSN 1044-0305. PMID 21472616. S2CID 9677761.
  2. ^ König, Simone, Henry M. Fales. "Reflections on Mass Spectrometry and Other Issues". Biomacromolecular Mass Spectrometry. 1 (2): 99–125. Archived from the original on 2011-09-29. Retrieved 2010-10-30.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "This Week in PNAS". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (16): 5637–5638. 2005. Bibcode:2005PNAS..102.5637.. doi:10.1073/iti1605102. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 556305.
  4. ^ "NHLBI Research at the Bethesda Campus: Henry M. Fales". Retrieved 2010-10-30.[permanent dead link‍]
  5. ^ Sun, Tung; Pedder, D. J.; Fales, H. M. (1973). "Molecular Weight Index of the Merck Index for Mass Spectrometry". Analytical Chemistry. 45 (13): 2297–2300. doi:10.1021/ac60335a006.
  6. ^ "Presidents of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry". Archived from the original on 2012-08-26. Retrieved 2010-10-30.