Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952

Archer John Porter Martin

Photo: Elliot and Fry. Nobel Foundation archive

Prize share: 1/2

Richard Laurence Millington Synge

Photo: Elliot and Fry. Nobel Foundation archive

Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952 was awarded jointly to Archer John Porter Martin and Richard Laurence Millington Synge "for their invention of partition chromatography"

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