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Overview

Alfred L. Yergey was affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spanned several fields, including Arts and Humanities, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Within these main fields of study, Yergey's work touched on subfields such as History and Philosophy of Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's academic output included investigations related to a range of scientific topics, most notably in areas connected to Twentieth Century Scientific Developments, Radioactive contamination and transfer, and Ion-surface interactions and analysis.

Among their published works, Alfred L. Yergey authored a paper titled "Preparative scale mass spectrometry: A brief history of the calutron" which was published in 2020 in the Journal of Mass Spectrometry. This publication has been cited multiple times and represents the documented record in scientific literature linked to Yergey.

The Journal of Mass Spectrometry was also a frequent publication venue for their work.

Collaboration formed part of Yergey's research activity, with at least one documented frequent co-author named A. Karl Yergey.

  • Preparative scale mass spectrometry: A brief history of the calutron (2020), Journal of Mass Spectrometry

  • Twentieth Century Scientific Developments
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Ion-surface interactions and analysis

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Environmental Science
  • Engineering

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Computational Mechanics

  • A. Karl Yergey

  • Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Best Publications

  • Daily cortisol production rate in man determined by stable isotope dilution/mass spectrometry.

    Nora V. Esteban;Thérèse Loughlin;Alfred L. Yergey;Joanna K. Zawadzki

  • Interrelationship among vitamin D metabolism, true calcium absorption, parathyroid function, and age in women: Evidence of an age-related intestinal resistance to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D action

    Richard Eastell;Alfred L. Yergey;Nancy E. Vieira;Sandra L. Cedel

  • De novo sequencing of peptides using MALDI/TOF-TOF.

    Alfred L. Yergey;Jens R. Coorssen;Peter S. Backlund;Paul S. Blank

  • Analysis of variance–principal component analysis: A soft tool for proteomic discovery

    Peter de B. Harrington;Nancy E. Vieira;Jimmy Espinoza;Jyh Kae Nien

  • A newly discovered cholesteryl galactoside from Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Gil Ben-Menachem;Joanna Kubler-Kielb;Bruce Coxon;Alfred Yergey

  • Relationship of intestinal calcium absorption to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D] levels in young versus elderly women: evidence for age-related intestinal resistance to 1,25(OH)2D action.

    S. Pattanaungkul;B. L. Riggs;A. L. Yergey;N. E. Vieira

  • Characterization of glucuronides with a thermospray liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry interface.

    Daniel J. Liberato;Catherine C. Fenselau;Marvin L. Vestal;Alfred L. Yergey

  • Nucleolar protein B23/nucleophosmin regulates the vertebrate SUMO pathway through SENP3 and SENP5 proteases

    Chawon Yun;Yonggang Wang;Debaditya Mukhopadhyay;Peter Backlund

  • Valproylcarnitine: a novel drug metabolite identified by fast atom bombardment and thermospray liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.

    David S. Millington;Timothy P. Bohan;Charles R. Roe;Alfred L. Yergey

  • Determination of fractional absorption of dietary calcium in humans.

    Alfred L. Yergey;Steven A. Abrams;Nancy E. Vieira;Akram Aldroubi

  • Quantifying proteins by mass spectrometry: the selectivity of SRM is only part of the problem.

    Mark W. Duncan;Mark W. Duncan;Alfred L. Yergey;Scott D. Patterson

  • Isotope ratio measurements of urinary calcium with a thermal ionization probe in a quadrupole mass spectrometer.

    Alfred L. Yergey;Nancy E. Vieira;James W. Hansen

  • Thermospray liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry for the analysis of L-carnitine and its short-chain acyl derivatives.

    Alfred L. Yergey;Daniel J. Liberato;David S. Millington

  • One-day test using stable isotopes to measure true fractional calcium absorption.

    Richard Eastell;B. Lawrence Riggs;Nancy E. Vieira;Alfred L. Yergey

  • Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry

    Alfred L. Yergey;Charles G. Edmonds;Ivor A. S. Lewis;Marvin L. Vestal

  • Thermal Desorption of Quaternary Ammonium Cations

    Robert J. Cotter;Alfred L. Yergey

  • Calcium kinetics in lactating women with low and high calcium intakes.

    Bonny L. Specker;Nancy E. Vieira;Kimberly O. O'Brien;Mona L. Ho

  • Direct measurement of dietary fractional absorption using calcium isotopic tracers

    Alfred L. Yergey;Nancy E. Vieira;David G. Covell

  • Cortisol production rates measured by liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry.

    Nora V. Esteban;Alfred L. Yergey

  • Phosphate stabilization of intermolecular interactions

    Shelley N. Jackson;† Hay-Yan J. Wang;and Alfred Yergey;Amina S. Woods

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven A. Abrams
Steven A. Abrams The University of Texas at Austin
Andreas Chrambach
Andreas Chrambach National Institutes of Health
Forbes D. Porter
Forbes D. Porter National Institutes of Health
Joan C. Marini
Joan C. Marini National Institutes of Health
Robert J. Cotter
Robert J. Cotter Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Bonny Specker
Bonny Specker South Dakota State University
Richard Eastell
Richard Eastell University of Sheffield
Huan-Tsung Chang
Huan-Tsung Chang Chang Gung University
D. Lynn Loriaux
D. Lynn Loriaux Oregon Health & Science University
Michael F. Holick
Michael F. Holick Boston University

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