Nicolaas Martinus Maria Nibbering (May 29, 1938 – August 25, 2014) was a Dutch chemist and mass spectrometrist.

[1][2] He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of the Thomson Medal and the Joannes Marcus Marci Award.

J. de Boer and was entitled “Mass spectrometry of some aralkyl compounds with a functional group in the side-chain.”[3] Under a Shell Travel Fellowship in 1968, Nibbering visited several mass spectrometry labs in the United States including those Fred McLafferty at Cornell University and Frank H. Field at Esso Oil in New Jersey.

His group built the first Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer in Europe.

[1] In 1988, Nibbering was elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.