Lidia Nikolaevna Gall (; ; 1 September 1934 – 21 October 2023) was a Russian mass spectrometrist, credited as one of the inventors for

electrospray ionization Electrospray ionization (ESI) is a technique used in mass spectrometry to produce ions using an electrospray in which a high voltage is applied to a liquid to create an aerosol. It is especially useful in producing ions from macromolecules becau ...

source and high-performance mass analyzers.

Life and career

Gall studied physical electronics at

Leningrad Polytechnic Institute Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, abbreviated as SPbPU, is a public technical university located in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Over the decades, it established itself as a cornerstone of technical education and research, ulti ...

and graduated in 1957. After graduation, she conducted research at the Leningrad Special Design Department. She received her PhD in 1973 from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Gall developed ERIAD, an ionization method of liquid samples at atmospheric pressure for mass spectrometry, which is an analogue of

. She researched on a number of high-performance mass analyzers: static mass spectrometers, orbital trapping (Gall, L. N.; Golikov, Y. K.; Aleksandrov, M. L.; Pechalina, Y. E.; Holin, N. A. USSR Inventor’s Certificate 1247973, 1986), MTI-350 series of mass spectrometers; and worked on theoretical calculations of ion trajectories. Gall was a professor at the Institute of Analytical Instrumentation of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...

. Lidia Gall died on 21 October 2023, at the age of 89.

Awards

For her contribution to mass spectrometry, Gall was awarded the Thomson Medal by the

International Mass Spectrometry Foundation The International Mass Spectrometry Foundation (IMSF) is a non-profit scientific organization in the field of mass spectrometry. It operates the International Mass Spectrometry Society, which consists of 37 member societies and sponsors the Inter ...

in 2022. In the same year, she was awarded the Manuel Riveros Medal by the Brazilian Society of Mass Spectrometry.

References

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