Rotary Club of South Richmond

Fabulous historic location. Well run establishment

Rotary Club Villa Crespo commemorates the death of John Bennett Fenn on December 10, 2010, died in Richmond on December 10, 2010 was an American chemist and university professor awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 1988 he published the ESI method (Electro Spray Ionization), a new technique based on mass spectroscopy that allows to detect and analyze proteins This discovery allowed us to better understand vital processes and quickly increase the speed with which new complex pharmaceutical compounds could be evaluated, leading directly to development of medications to stop the progression of AIDS (protease inhibitors) developed in the 1990s In 2002 he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with the Japanese Kōichi Tanaka and the Swiss Kurt Wüthrich for the development of identification methods and structural analysis of biological macromolecules that have contributed to A better understanding of life processes Rotary Clubs are participating see Rotary Showcase