Papers of Charles Joseph William Brooks, 1927-2008, Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, Scotland

• Correspondence relating to the establishment of the Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Unit, 1965-1967;
• Letter containing a brief history of the Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Unit, 1994.

Charles Joseph William Brooks was born in London on 28 September 1927  . Charles attended Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, and graduated with a second class honours BSc in 1948. He was also subsequently awarded a PhD in 1952 for his thesis The relationship between physical properties and molecular structure and a DSc in 1969. He was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow in January 1963  , Senior Lecturer in February 1966  and Titular Professor in 1976  , a position which he held until his retirement in 1990. He established the combined Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Unit at the University of Glasgow in 1966  with Dr (now Professor) Geoffrey Eglinton. This was the first such Unit in a UK University and was set up with a grant from the Science Research Council. His publications include Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, (1973) with D H Williams and B S Middleditch; Biosynthesis of capsidiol in sweet peppers (Capsicum frutescens) infected with fungi in Journal of the Chemical Society: Chemical Communications, Issue 8 (1975) with F C Baker and S A Hutchison; Cyclic Boronate Derivatives in Combined Gas Chromatography - Chemical Ionisation Mass Spectrometry in Analytical Letters, 9, issue 4 (1976) with S J Gaskell and C G Edmonds; and Di-tert-butylsilylene derivatives for the characterisation of bifunctional compounds by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in Analyst, Issue 6 (1985) with W J Cole. Professor Brooks died in Glasgow on 18 March 2008  .

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Description revised by Rachel Hosker, Assistant Archivist, 14 May 2003 and administrative history edited by Jane Heward, Archives Assistant, 20 July 2011.