Synge, Richard Laurence Millington

In their landmark paper, Martin and Synge also indicated that partition chromatography that used a carrier gas as the mobile phase was possible. In his Nobel lecture of 1952, Martin casually revealed that he, in collaboration with A. T. James, had devised a mechanism for gas-fiquid chromatography. The use of a gas as the mobile phase did place fimits on the types of material that could be analyzed, as the compounds had to be volatile and better detectors were needed, but these difficulties proved to be surmountable. Today, gas-liquid chromatography is probably the single most widely used analytical tool in chemistry, see also Analytical Chemistry Synge, Richard Laurence Millington. 

Synge, Richard Laurence Millington (p. 52, Plate 44). Born in 1914 in Liverpool, he studied Biochemistry at Cambridge, Int. Wool Seer. 1938, Biochemist at Wool Industries Research Association, Leeds 1941-1943, Staff Biochemist Lister Inst, of Preventive Medicine, London, until 1948, then Head of Dept, of Protein Chemistry, Riwett Research Inst. Bucksburn, Aberdeen (1948-67), Biochemist, Food Research Institute, Norwich, 1967-1976. Shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry with A.J.P. Martin, 1952 for invention of partition chromatography. 

Synge, Richard Laurence Millington (1914-94) British biochemist. Synge is best known for his work with Archer MARTIN on paper chromatography which led to them sharing the 1952 Nobel Prize for chemistry. Synge used this technique to determine the exact structure of a simple antibiotic peptide gramicidin-S. 

S. Konstantinovic, The British biochemists Archer John Porter Martin and Richard Laurence Millington Synge shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for chemistry , Hem. Pregl., 1994, 35, 76-78. 

Richard Laurence Millington Synge— Biography. Nobel e-Museum. Available from . 

British chemist Richard Laurence Millington Synge, co-recipient, with Archer John Porter Martin, of the 1952 Nobel Prize in chemistry, for fheir invention of partifion chromatography. ... 

Shetty PH (1993) 1952 Nobel laureate Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914). In James LK (ed) Nobel laureates in chemistry 1901-1992. American Chemical Society, Washington and Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, pp 356-358... 

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