Several photos of the 1940 Nier Mass Spectrograph are online at the National Museum of American History. Alfred Nier built this instrument to separate 235U from 238U and test the prediction that the former undergoes fission (via).
Category Archives: Education
Carboxylic Acid Derivatives and Mass Spectrometry
UC Berkeley Professor Peter Vollhardt talks about Carboxylic Acid Derivatives and Mass Spectroscopy in, not one, but two lectures in his Webcast Lecture for Chem 3B – Chemical Structure and Reactivity in Spring 2006 (Real Media).
The Inner Life of the Cell
A video produced by XVivo for Harvard University’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. (on StudioDaily and via).
Autoflex III Mass Spectrometer
Bruker introduced a new version of the Autoflex at the IMSC in Prague. I first saw this instrument in Barcelona at the IMSC 2000 and it still reminds me of the drones in Silent Running.
Calutron Operator’s Story
The Calutron operator in the right foreground of the famous photograph tells her story.
Scale Model Hydrogen Atom
An eleven mile wide web page that depicts a hydrogen atom to scale (via).
Alkali Metals and Water
Periodic properties of Group 1 elements. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9bJxHgm1sk Science meets reality television meets internet video (via).
Gapminder
Gapminder (now in Google beta) has some excellent animated plots using world political and economic information. This could be a glimpse of the future of scientific data presentation (via).
Acronyms in Mass Spectrometry
Spectroscopy magazine has an updated list of mass spectrometry acronyms.
More Mass Spec Cartoons
A few more cartoons about mass spectrometry and related topics (via).
MALDI Beats Electrospray
In a MALDI vs. electrospray GoogleBattle anyway (via).
Mass Spectrometry Cartoons
Ion Trap and TOF cartoons at VIAS Science Cartoons.
2can Bioinformatics Educational Resource
A glossary of terms found in bioinformatics and molecular biology. Also tutorials.
Standard Definitions of Terms Related to Mass Spectrometry
The MS Terms and Definitions project is outlined in the latest Chemistry International, IUPAC’s Newsmagazine.
Periodic Table of Haiku
The Periodic Table of Haiku is more educational than you might guess. For example: Magnesium flares Silvery-white When called quicklime – Stephen D. Rogers Who could forget that? Atomic weight, year of discovery and other information can be had by mousing around the Javascript table. Update: Periodic Table of Haiku at UMR