Lidia Gall Explained

Lidia Gall
Birth Name:Lidia Nikolaevna Loginova[1]
Birth Date:1 September 1934
Birth Place:Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR
Death Place:Saint Petersburg, Russia
Alma Mater:Leningrad Polytechnic Institute
Thesis Title:Physical principles defining the ion-optical properties of ion sources for mass spectrometers
Known For:Electrospray ionization
Spouse:R. N. Gall
Field:Mass spectrometry
Work Institutions:Russian Academy of Sciences
Prizes:Thomson Medal (2022)
Manuel Riveros Medal (2022)

Lidia Nikolaevna Gall (Russian: Лидия Николаевна Галль; ; 1 September 1934 – 21 October 2023) was a Russian mass spectrometrist, credited as one of the inventors for electrospray ionization source and high-performance mass analyzers.

Life and career

Gall studied physical electronics at Leningrad Polytechnic Institute 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.[2]

Gall developed ERIAD, an ionization method of liquid samples at atmospheric pressure for mass spectrometry, which is an analogue of electrospray ionization.[3] [4] [5] [6] She researched on a number of high-performance mass analyzers: static mass spectrometers,[7] orbital trapping (Gall, L. N.; Golikov, Y. K.; Aleksandrov, M. L.; Pechalina, Y. E.; Holin, N. A. USSR Inventor’s Certificate 1247973, 1986),[8] MTI-350 series of mass spectrometers;[9] [10] and worked on theoretical calculations of ion trajectories.[11]

Gall was a professor at the Institute of Analytical Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[12]

Lidia Gall died on 21 October 2023, at the age of 89.[13]

Awards

For her contribution to mass spectrometry, Gall was awarded the Thomson Medal by the International Mass Spectrometry Foundation in 2022.[14] In the same year, she was awarded the Manuel Riveros Medal by the Brazilian Society of Mass Spectrometry.[15]

Notes and References

  1. 2019. ANNIVERSARY OF LYDIA NIKOLAEVNA GALL, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor . Nauchnoe Priborostroenie . 29 . 3. 69–72. 10.18358/np-29-3-i6972. 242380166. 30 June 2023.
  2. Web site: Supplementary Information and Description of Achievement - Nominating Society - Russian Society for MS - Lidija Nikolaevna Gall . 22 May 2023 . Greater Boston Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group.
  3. Alexandrov . M. L. . Gall . L. N. . Krasnov . N. V. . Nikolaev . V. I. . Pavlenko . V. A. . Shkurov . V. A. . 15 February 2008 . Extraction of ions from solutions under atmospheric pressure as a method for mass spectrometric analysis of bioorganic compounds . Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry . en . 22 . 3 . 267–270 . 10.1002/rcm.3113. 18181250 . free . 2008RCMS...22..267A .
  4. Verenchikov . A. N. . Krasnov . N. V. . Shkurov . V. A. . 1 August 2023 . Electrospray ionization developed by Lidija Gall's group . International Journal of Mass Spectrometry . en . 490 . 117067 . 10.1016/j.ijms.2023.117067 . 2023IJMSp.490k7067V . 258596337 . 1387-3806.
  5. Gall . L.N. . Fomina . N.S. . Giles . R. . Masukevich . S.V. . Beliaeva . O.A. . Gall . N.R. . 2015 . Electrospray Mass Spectrometry with Controlled in-Source Atomization as a Promising Elemental Method: Evaluation of Analytical Features . European Journal of Mass Spectrometry . en . 21 . 3 . 353–359 . 10.1255/ejms.1363 . 26307716 . 23531299 . 1469-0667.
  6. Web site: ASMS History Committee: P. Jane Gale (Chair), Mariam ElNaggar, Michael Grayson, O. David Sparkman, Alfred Yergey, Kenneth Tomer . LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY AND MASS SPECTROMETRY: FROM IMPOSSIBLE UNION TO A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN . 22 May 2023 . American Society for Mass Spectrometry.
  7. Sachenko . V. D. . Antonov . A. S. . Gall . L. N. . Berdnikov . A. S. . 2020 . Optimization of Vertical Acceptance of the Static Mass Analyzer . Journal of Analytical Chemistry . 75 . 13 . 1660–1664 . 10.1134/s1061934820130122 . 229326311 . 1061-9348.
  8. Makarov . Alexander . 1 March 2000 . Electrostatic Axially Harmonic Orbital Trapping: A High-Performance Technique of Mass Analysis . Analytical Chemistry . en . 72 . 6 . 1156–1162 . 10.1021/ac991131p . 10740853 . 0003-2700.
  9. Kuzelev . N. R. . Shtan’ . A. S. . Kiryanov . G. I. . Gall’ . L. N. . Knutarev . A. P. . Solov’ev . G. S. . Saprygin . A. V. . Kalashnikov . V. A. . Novikov . D. V. . Maleev . A. B. . Borodin . V. A. . Gorbunov . V. G. . Savina . Zh. A. . Ivanov . A. P. . 1 December 2010 . Modern Russian mass spectrometers for the atomic industry . Journal of Analytical Chemistry . en . 65 . 13 . 1382–1387 . 10.1134/S1061934810130125 . 94803295 . 1608-3199.
  10. Gall . L. N. . Yakushev . E. M. . Nazarenko . L. M. . Antonov . A. S. . Semenov . A. A. . Gall . N. R. . 2018 . A Prism Mass-Spectrometer for Isotope Analysis of Hydrogen–Helium Mixtures . Technical Physics Letters . 44 . 7 . 646–649 . 10.1134/s1063785018070209 . 2018TePhL..44..646G . 255227378 . 1063-7850.
  11. Gall . L. N. . Sachenko . V. D. . 1 January 1983 . Computational simulation of mass spectral peak shape . International Journal of Mass Spectrometry and Ion Physics . en . 46 . 43–46 . 10.1016/0020-7381(83)80048-5 . 1983IJMSI..46...43G . 0020-7381.
  12. Web site: The Institute for Analytical Instrumentation >> Structure >> Laboratories . 22 May 2023 . iairas.ru.
  13. News: Лидия Николаевна Галль . 24 October 2023 . iairas.ru . 23 October 2023.
  14. Web site: 23 September 2022 . Mass Spec in Maastricht . 22 May 2023 . The Analytical Scientist . en.
  15. Web site: 4 July 2019 . Awards IBERO2022 . 22 May 2023 . pt-BR.