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Archer Martin

Also Known As Archer John Porter Martin
Chemistry

British chemist who, with Anthony T. James, developed gas-liquid partition chromatography, presenting it to the Biochemical Society in October 1950 and publishing it in 1952. The technique grew out of the partition chromatography Martin had developed earlier in the 1940s with Richard Synge, for which the two shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Birth Year
1910 1
Field
Chemistry, partition and gas-liquid chromatography 1
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Invented

Developed with A. T. James; their 1952 paper established gas liquid chromatography.

Source Gas Chromatography (Britannica)

Works In

Chemistry, Disciplines
Source Archer Martin (Wikipedia)
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1. Archer Martin (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    Archer John Porter Martin (1 March 1910-28 July 2002) was an English chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge.
  • Works In: Chemistry
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Gas Chromatography (Britannica)
Encyclopaedia BritannicaInvented: Gas ChromatographView the Source
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