Alan Quayle

Alan Quayle was a British chemist and mass spectrometrist.

Career

During the 1950s, Quayle worked at the research laboratories of the Shell Refining & Marketing Co. Ltd at the Thornton Research Centre.[1] Quayle spent time working at the Shell oil refinery in Deer Park, Texas laboratory with Jack O'Neill in the USA, where he also attended meetings of the ASTM Committee E-14 at the Pittsburgh Analytical Conference. Much of his early work involved the development of "high molecular weight" analysis up to m/z 800 using the MS2 with a heated inlet. He later worked at Aston University in its Department of Molecular Sciences.

Quayle was a founding member of the British Mass Spectrometry Society and its 3rd Chair during 1966–67.[2] He was also a key member of the Hydrocarbon Research Group of the Institute of Petroleum.[3] He was the first editor of the International Journal of Mass Spectrometry.[4]

References
  1. Quayle, A. (September 1987). "Recollections of mass spectrometry of the fifties in a UK petroleum laboratory". Organic Mass Spectrometry. 22 (9): 569–585. doi:10.1002/oms.1210220902. ISSN 0030-493X.
  2. "Bmss-50th-poster-by-asms" (PDF).
  3. "Member Only Content | BMSS". www.bmss.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  4. "Jennings Oral History" (PDF). p. 129.


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