Carol Robinson: Pushing a technology’s boundaries

The distinguished chemist Carol Robinson has used mass spectrometry throughout her career to tackle increasingly complex problems in biology. When she delivered the Radcliffe Institute’s first Lecture in the Sciences of the academic year, last Oct. 6, she chose the title “Reading Between the Spectral Lines,” referring to the jagged lines of data produced by the mass spectrometer. This technology allows scientists to analyze the chemical structure of a sample by determining the precise mass (or size) and charge of particles in it. read more

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