Martin, Archer John Porter

Martin, Archer John Porter (pp. 52, 54, Plate 31) born in 1910 in London, studied chemistry in Cambridge (Ph.D.) worked there in the physical chemical laboratory on nutritional research, then in the Wool Institute Leeds until 1946. Member of staff of the Medical Research Council, director Natl. Inst. Medical Res., Mill Hill (until 1956), later various professorships, e.g. cole poly technique, Lausanne 1980-1983. Nobel Prize in chemistry 1952, shared with R.L.M. Synge with whom he worked in Leeds on chromatographic methods. 

Martin, Archer John Porter (1910-2002) English biochemist who developed methods of partition chromatography, using columns of silica gel, for the separation of amino acids from the mixture produced by hydrolysis of proteins. This method greatly facilitated the work of determining the structure of proteins. He was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in chemistry. 

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