Brian Green (chemist)

Brian Noel Green OBE (25 December 1933 -17 December 2021) was an English mass spectrometrist.

Early life and career
Green was born in Urmston, Manchester, UK on Christmas Day 1933. He attended Manchester Grammar School and in 1955 graduated from Manchester University. Green had a long career at Metropolitan-Vickers before moving to VG MICROMASS in 1972.

Honours and awards
In 1985, Green was awarded the Order of the British Empire for contributions to mass spectrometry, and in 1996, the British Mass Spectrometry Society awarded him the Aston Medal.

Legacy
In Green's honour, the British Mass Spectrometry Society now presents the B. N. Green Prize to an early career scientist with the best flash oral presentation at their annual meeting.

Notable works

 * Ferrige, A.G., Seddon, M.J., Green, B.N., Jarvis, S.A., Skilling, J. and Staunton, J. (1992), Disentangling electrospray spectra with maximum entropy. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom., 6: 707-711. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.1290061115
 * The Analysis of Human Haemoglobin Variants Using Mass Spectrometry Micromass UK Ltd: Wilmslow (2021 ISBN 978-1-5262-0895-8)