Yost did not invent the mass spectrometer. It was invented by F. W. Aston in 1927.
"The mass spectrometer was invented by F. W. Aston shortly after World War I. By 1927 Aston had built an instrument that was accurate to more than 1 part in 10,000, and mass spectrometry became the method of choice for measuring the relative mass of an atom or molecule."