Michael L. Gross (chemist)

Michael L. Gross
Born1940 (age 85–86)
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University
Known formass spectrometry
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis
University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Michael L. Gross (born 1940) is Professor of Chemistry, Medicine, and Immunology, at Washington University in St. Louis and at Washington University School of Medicine. He was formerly Professor of Chemistry at University of Nebraska–Lincoln from 1968–1994. He is recognized for his contributions to the field of mass spectrometry and ion chemistry. He is credited with the discovery of distonic ions, chemical species containing a radical and an ionic site on different atoms of the same molecule.