Nicolaas Martinus Maria Nibbering (May 29, 1938 – August 25, 2014) was a Dutch chemist and mass spectrometrist.[1][2] He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Thomson Medal and the Joannes Marcus Marci Award.
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| Born | May 29, 1938 Zaandam, Netherlands |
| Died | August 25, 2014 (aged 76) |
| Citizenship | Netherlands |
| Education | University of Amsterdam |
| Known for | Mass spectrometry Ion chemistry |
| Awards | Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988) Thomson Medal (1991) Joannes Marcus Marci Award (1992) |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Mass spectrometry of some aralkyl compounds with a functional group in the side-chain (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Th. J. de Boer |
Early life and education
editNico Nibbering was born May 29, 1938, in the North Holland city of Zaandam. He grew up in the occupied Netherlands and endured the Dutch famine of 1944. He completed high school in Zaandam and went on to the University of Amsterdam in 1956.
Nibbering continued at the University of Amsterdam through his Ph.D. degree in 1968. His thesis was under the direction of Dr. Th. J. de Boer and was entitled “Mass spectrometry of some aralkyl compounds with a functional group in the side-chain.”[3]
Academic career
editUnder a Shell Travel Fellowship in 1968, Nibbering visited several mass spectrometry labs in the United States including those Fred McLafferty at Cornell University and Frank H. Field at Esso Oil in New Jersey.
He joined the faculty of the University of Amsterdam and was promoted to associate professor in 1975 and professor in 1980. His group built the first Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer in Europe.[1]
Awards
editIn 1988, Nibbering was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] He received the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation Thomson Medal in 1991 at the 12th International Congress on Mass Spectrometry in Amsterdam that he chaired. He received the Joannes Marcus Marci Award in 1992.
References
edit- ^ a b Gross, Michael L. (2014). "Nico Nibbering (1938–2014)". Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 25 (11): 1829–1831. Bibcode:2014JASMS..25.1829G. doi:10.1007/s13361-014-1003-z. ISSN 1044-0305. PMID 25267083. S2CID 624214.
- ^ Heck, Albert; Desiderio, Dominic M.; Uggerud, Einar; Lebrilla, Carlito; Vouros, Paul (2014). "Obituary". Mass Spectrometry Reviews. 33 (6): 415–416. Bibcode:2014MSRv...33..415H. doi:10.1002/mas.21446. ISSN 0277-7037. PMID 25267091.
- ^ Nibbering, Nicolaas Martinus Maria (1968). Mass spectrometry of some aralkyl compounds with a functional group in the side-chain. Assendelft, Drukkerij Engel. OCLC 491782525.
- ^ "N.M.M. (Nico) Nibbering (1938 - 2014)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020.
Further reading
edit- Nibbering, Nico M.M. (2006). "Four decades of joy in mass spectrometry" (PDF). Mass Spectrometry Reviews. 25 (6): 962–1017. Bibcode:2006MSRv...25..962N. doi:10.1002/mas.20099. ISSN 0277-7037. PMID 16736509.
- "Tributes for Nico M.M. Nibbering". International Journal of Mass Spectrometry. 413: 3–6. 2017. Bibcode:2017IJMSp.413....3.. doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2017.01.009. ISSN 1387-3806.
External links
edit- "Nico Nibbering 1938-2014". Nederlandse Vereninging voor MassaSpectrometrie. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-01.