Charles Wilkins (chemist)

Charles Wilkins (born 1938, California)[1] is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Arkansas and the founding Director of the University of Arkansas Statewide Mass Spectrometry Facility.[2] With Michael Gross, he built the second Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer and they were the first to use it for analytical applications.[3] (Another source says it was the first Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance mass spectrometer and that it “played a key role in commercialization of the technique.”)[4]

Education
  • Ph. D., University of Oregon, Eugene
  • B.S., Chapman College

Career

Wilkins was Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside and chemistry professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.[2]

Awards and honors
  • 1993 Recipient of the Richard C. Tolman Medal[1]

References
  1. "1993 Charles L. Wilkins, UC Riverside". Southern California Section of the American Chemical Society. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  2. "Charles Wilkins Distinguished Professor, Analytical Chemistry". University of Arkansas. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  3. Gross, Michael L; E.B. Ledford Jr; R.L. White; S. Ghaderi; C.L. Wilkins (1980). "Coupling of Capillary Gas Chromatography and Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer". Analytical Chemistry. 52 (14): 2450–2451. doi:10.1021/ac50064a056.
  4. "Charles Wilkins". The Power List 2019 – 21-100 (A-Z). The Analytical Scientist. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
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