Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- Building Australia's first mass spectrometer: Recognising the achievements of J. Roger Bird
- In
- Journal of Mass Spectrometry
- Imprint
- vol. 57, no. 10, John Wiley & Sons, 2022
- Url
- https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jms.4887
- Format
- Description
The full article is not on open access. Kevin Downard is from the Infectious Disease Responses Laboratory, Prince of Wales Clinical Research Sciences, Sydney, Australia.
- Abstract
Quote: "Following the birth of the field of mass spectrometry at the end of World War I, it was several decades before the first commercial mass spectrometers became available. In the interim, many physicists interested in the nature of matter, and their application to studies in nuclear physics, constructed their own. A young physics postgraduate student, John Roger Bird, was the first to do so in Australia. This article describes his efforts and achievements, featuring technical blueprints, photographs of the instruments and early data, in long overdue recognition of Bird's work at the University of Melbourne."
Related Published resources
hasCitationTo
- Home, R. W., 'The rush to accelerate: Early stages of nuclear physics research in Australia', Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 36 (2) (2006), 213-241, https://doi.org/10.1525/hsps.2006.36.2.213. Details