Archer Martin
British chemist (1910-2002) · United Kingdom · Scientists · Died at 92
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Something wrong?A chemist who found a way to separate the inseparable - the technique that let scientists pull mixtures apart molecule by molecule, earning a Nobel and remaking analytical chemistry.
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Archer John Porter Martin was born on 1 March 1910 in Britain. Working alongside Richard Synge, he invented partition chromatography, a method that revolutionized how scientists could isolate and identify substances in complex mixtures. The breakthrough won them both the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Martin died on 28 July 2002.
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