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To Craig

" The occasional fineness of line, the masterly distribution of masses"
(from The Master (1895) by Israel Zangwill (1864 1926))

Acknowledgements

I owe a particular gratitude to John Bowie for introducing me to the exciting field of mass spectrometry and for his support throughout...