The construction of Thompson's mass spectrograph in Cambridge almost exactly a century ago followed by Aston's improved instruments and his pioneering work on non-radioactive isotopes is widely known. In the sixty years or so since then, European scientists and engineers have made many major contributions to the development of new instruments and techniques. Accounts of these contributions in the scientific literature necessarily give little idea of the contributors themselves or of the difficulties that had to be overcome before success was achieved.  Most newcomers to mass spectrometry in the last ten years will have little concept of the difficulties faced in obtaining the mass spectra of four solid samples during a working day before the invention of the vacuum lock probe. This was followed by several hours of counting spectra and trying to interpret them. Many will never have seen a magnetic deflection instrument and will be familiar only with mass spectrometers having both the operation of the instrument and the interpretation of the data under computer control. This book aims to give an insight into how some of the more important developments came about, from the advent of the first commercial instruments to the present day. The various accounts, several of which contain personal reminiscences, both provide a human background to these developments and convey the excitement of being part of the European mass spectrometry community during this period.

A History of European Mass Spectrometry

Keith R Jennings

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Goodwood Anecdotes

Redman, Peter

<p>Gilbert Briggs (1890-1978) founded the Wharfedale Wireless Works in 1932 to produce the famous Wharfedale loudspeakers that he personally designed for more than 20 years, earning the accolade 'the father of hi-fi'. Combining a biography of Briggs with the history of his company and products, this book from one of his relatives features brochures, advertisements and archive photographs illustrating the work of the factory and Briggs's audacious 'live versus recorded' concert demonstrations in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall.</p>

A pair of Wharfedales: the story of Gilbert Briggs and his loudspeakers

David Briggs

The field of chemometrics in general, and multivariate calibration and classification in particular, is now an essential tool for many analytical techniques. This book provides a readable text, for non-mathematicians, as an introduction to these areas for people with little or moderate knowledge of chemometrics. The book has been designed in an attractive and easily read format, with many diagrams and the use of margin notes to highlight important features.The authors are all very well known in the field and they bring a complementary range of experience and interests to this project. Tormod Naes has a PhD in statistics and is Senior Scientist at Nofima and Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen. His main interest is developing and applying multivariate methods. The late Tomas Isaksson was Professor of Food Science at the Agricultural University of Norway. He worked in the area of non-destructive quality analysis and chemometrics. Tom Fearn is Professor of Applied Statistics at University College London. He has worked in the area of multi-variate calibration and discrimination for over 30 years. Tony (A.M.C.) Davies first used multiple regression analysis in 1965. He works as an NIR consultant and has been writing about chemometrics since 1989.This Second Edition includes Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) for references where these are -available, facilitating the finding of references online.

A User-Friendly Guide to Multivariate Calibration and Classification 2017

Næs, Tormod

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A History of European Mass Spectrometry

Goodwood Anecdotes

A pair of Wharfedales: the story of Gilbert Briggs and his loudspeakers

A User-Friendly Guide to Multivariate Calibration and Classification 2017