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Australian physical chemist

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Jim Morrison

Australian physical chemist

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Notable quotes

“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.”
— "The End" from The Doors (1967)
“The future's uncertain and the end is always near”
— "", on the album Morrison Hotel (1970)
“This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.”
— "Waiting for the Sun"
“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then — whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me — ever.”
— As quoted in Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip (2003), by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams p. 152

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Overview

James Douglas Morrison AO, FAA, FRSE, 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 CSIRO. There he switched from X-Ray crystallography to mass spectrometry 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. He is known for his work in mass spectrometry and he is one of the inventors of the triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. References Australian chemists Mass spectrometrists Officers of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science 1924 births 2013 deaths

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James Douglas Morrison (1924–2013) was an Australian physical chemist. Born and educated in Glasgow, 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.

Occupation: chemist
Born: 1924
Died: 2013