James Douglas Morrison AO, FAA,

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

, FRACI (1924–2013) was a Scottish born Australian physical chemist. Born and educated in Glasgow (BSc 1945, PhD 1948), he moved to Australia in 1949 to work with the

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. There he switched from X-Ray crystallography to

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as a research topic. In 1967 he was appointed as the foundation chair of physical chemistry at La Trobe University, where he was a professor of chemistry until retiring in 1989.Morrison, James Douglas (1924 - 2013)
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and he is one of the inventors of the triple quadrupole mass spectrometer.

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