Talk:Robert E. Finnigan

A fact from Robert E. Finnigan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 March 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that gas chromatography–mass spectrometry equipment, first developed by Robert E. Finnigan, was fundamental to the EPA's ability to carry out environmental testing in the 1970s? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2017/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Robert E. Finnigan.

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"GC/MS technology, of which Finnigan Instrument Corporation's instrument was the first . . ." I worked in the Ray Scott lab at Unilever in England in 1966. We had a GCMS which was a Pye 104 GC (if memory serves - we later replaced it with a Pye 107)coupled with a magnetic sector AEI MS9. It's OR of course so I cannot edit the piece with this info. Bob Finnigan's quadrupole MS was a major advance and made it much more feasible and cheaper - but he did not invent GCMS technology.Cross Reference (talk) 02:58, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]