Background
Franz Hillenkamp was born in 1936 in Essen, Germany.
chemist physicist university professor
Franz Hillenkamp was born in 1936 in Essen, Germany.
He attended high school in Lünen, graduating in 1955. He received a Master of Surgery degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1961. He received a Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor-Ing) from the Technische Universität München in 1966 with a thesis entitled “An Absolutely Calibrated Calorimeter for the Measurement of Pulsed Laser Radiation.”.
Hillenkamp was a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt from 1982 to 1986. In 1986, he became a professor on the Medical Faculty of the University of Münster where he remained until his retirement in 2001. In 1973, Hillenkamp developed a high performance laser microprobe mass spectrometer with a spatial resolution of 0.5 µm and sub-attogram limit of detection for lithium atoms.
This instrument was commercialized as the LAMMA 500 and was one of the first laser desorption mass spectrometers to be used for mass spectrometry imaging of tissue.
The later LAMMA 1000 was also based on a Hillenkamp design. Is an ionization method used in mass spectrometry, allowing the analysis of large biopolymers.
Karas and Hillenkamp reported of proteins a few months later. The method of Karas and Hillenkamp subsequently became the much more widely used method.
North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts.