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Charles Wilkins | |
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| Born | 1938 (age 86–87) California, U.S. |
| Awards | Tolman Award (1993) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Chapman College (BS) University of Oregon (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Chemistry |
| Sub-discipline | Biochemistry Analytical chemistry |
| Institutions | |
Charles Wilkins (born 1938)[1] is an American chemist who is a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Arkansas and the founding director of the University of Arkansas Statewide Mass Spectrometry Facility.[2]
Wilkins was born in California. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Chapman College and a PhD from the University of Oregon.[citation needed]
Wilkins was a distinguished professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside and a chemistry professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.[2] In 1993, Wilkins was a recipient of the Tolman Award.[1]
With Michael Gross, he built the second Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer and they were the first to use it for analytical applications.[3][4] In November 2020, Wilkins was selected as the chief editor of the International Journal of Analytical Chemistry.[5]