:Henry M. Fales
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Henry M. Fales
| image = HMFales.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1927|02|12}}
| birth_place = New York City, United States
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|10|28|1927|12|2}}
| death_place = Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
| field = Chemistry
| work_institutions = National Institutes of Health
| alma_mater = Rutgers University
| doctoral_advisor = Roderick Barnes
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = natural substances identification, bioanalytical chromatography and mass spectrometry
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Henry M. Fales (February 12, 1927, New York, NY – October 28, 2010, Silver Spring, MD) was an American organic chemist and mass spectrometrist.{{cite journal|last1=Markey|first1=Sanford P.|title=Henry M. Fales, February 12, 1927–October 28, 2010|journal=Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry|volume=22|issue=4|year=2011|pages=789–790|issn=1044-0305|doi=10.1007/s13361-011-0078-z|pmid=21472616|bibcode=2011JASMS..22..789M|doi-access=free|s2cid=9677761 }}{{cite journal | journal = Biomacromolecular Mass Spectrometry | volume = 1 | issue = 2 | title = Reflections on Mass Spectrometry and Other Issues | pages = 99–125 | first = Simone, Henry M. Fales | last = König | url = https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=12282 | access-date = 2010-10-30 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110929024007/https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=12282 | archive-date = 2011-09-29 | url-status = dead }}{{cite journal|title=This Week in PNAS|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=102|issue=16|year=2005|pages=5637–5638|issn=0027-8424|doi=10.1073/iti1605102|bibcode=2005PNAS..102.5637.|pmc=556305}} He authored and co-authored over 350 scientific publications on natural substances and biochemistry.
Academic career
Fales obtained his PhD from Rutgers University. He worked at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, since 1954, first as Chief of the Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry and later as Chief of the Laboratory of Applied Mass Spectrometry.{{cite web|url=http://public.nhlbi.nih.gov/Staff/Home/UserInputForPerson.aspx?OID=769&LabId=ams |title=NHLBI Research at the Bethesda Campus: Henry M. Fales |accessdate=2010-10-30 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Under his direction, the Laboratory of Chemistry in NHLBI became a world-renowned center for structural chemistry during the 1960s, integrating nmr, x-ray crystallography and mass spectrometry. Fales and coworkers also began a reference library of molecular weights which was incorporated into the Merck Index.{{cite journal | journal = Analytical Chemistry | volume = 45 | issue = 13 | title = Molecular Weight Index of the Merck Index for Mass Spectrometry | first3 = H. M. | last3 = Fales | first2 = D. J. | pages = 2297–2300 | last2 = Pedder | first1 = Tung | year = 1973 | last1 = Sun | doi = 10.1021/ac60335a006}}
He served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Mass Spectrometry, the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, Analytical Chemistry and Bioanalytical Chemistry. He served on the advisory panel on Chemistry of the National Science Foundation. H. M. Fales held several functions in the board of directors of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry including president.{{cite web | url =http://www.asms.org/Publications/Historical/PastPresidents/tabid/386/Default.aspx | archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20120826074430/http://www.asms.org/Publications/Historical/PastPresidents/tabid/386/Default.aspx | archivedate =2012-08-26 | title = Presidents of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry| accessdate = 2010-10-30}}
Awards
Fales received several awards including Chromatographer of the Year of the Washington Chromatography Discussion Group (1973), DHEW Superior Service Awards (1973, 1986), the Hillebrand Prize from the Chemical Society of Washington in 1977, and a Professional Service Award of Alpha Chi Sigma, Washington, D.C. (1988).
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081001183039/http://www.nih.gov/catalyst/back/96.09/chembio.html The NIH Catalyst], Oct. 1996
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Category:Scientists from New York City