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Dr. Kenneth Standing
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Dates of existence
1925-
History
Dr. Kenneth Standing was born in Winnipeg in 1925, and graduated from the University of Manitoba with a B.Sc. in Honours Mathematics in 1948. Dr. Standing continued his education at Princeton University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in 1955. Shortly thereafter, he returned to the University of Manitoba as a Professor of Physics. Dr. Standing supervised the construction of the University's cyclotron from 1958 to 1965, and acted as the program director from 1965 to 1974.
Internationally renowned for innovations in the field of time-of-flight mass spectrometry as it relates to biomolecules, Dr. Standing is an accomplished researcher and educator. Currently professor emeritus in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Manitoba, Dr. Standing has advanced the limits of sensitivity and the range of accessible sizes of biological macromolecules to the point where they have become extensively useful for real-world biomedical research.
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