Starting in 1984,a Shimadzu Corporation Central Research Laboratory development team set about the challenge of developinng an instrument for analyzing macromolecules such as proteins. At the time, the conventional consensus among chemists was that, “laser ionization of macromolecules exceeding a molecular weight of 10,000 is imposible”. However, not being a chemist, I was unaware of this widelyheld belief.
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