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Chemist Hits a Triple in Mass Spectrometry
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Michael Bowers
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Michael T. Bowers, professor of chemistry, last month received the Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) for his theoretical contributions to mass spectrometry.
According to the organization, "Bowers' work has advanced the prediction of gas-phase ion-molecule collisions from a qualitative to a quantitative level, has furnished the yardstick by which all such reaction rate constants are measured."
Bowers, who has been on the UCSB faculty since 1968, is a pioneer in mapping the three-dimensional shape of biological molecules.
He has received many major awards, including the 1998 International Mass Spectrometry Society's J.J. Thomson Gold Medal, the highest award given by specialists in the science of atomic measurement, and the ACS' 1996 Field and Franklin Award.
With the ASMS award, Bowers became only the fourth person worldwide to have won all three of mass spectrometry's top prizes.