Jim Morrison (chemist)

James Douglas Morrison (1924–2013) was an Australian physical chemist. Born and educated in Glasgow (BSc 1945, PhD 1948), he moved to Australia in 1949 to work with the CSIRO. There he switched from X-ray crystallography to mass spectrometry as a research topic.^[1] 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.^[2][3][4][5]

Professor Jim Morrison AO FAA FRSE FRACI
Born	James Douglas Morrison (1924-11-09)9 November 1924[1] Glasgow, Scotland
Died	2013
Alma mater	University of Glasgow
Known for	Mass spectrometry
Scientific career
Fields	Analytical chemistry
Institutions	La Trobe University
Doctoral advisor	John Monteath Robertson

He is known for his work in mass spectrometry and he is one of the inventors of the triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. ^[6]