The wife’s mother said: ‘When you’re dead, I’ll dance on your grave.’
I said: ‘Good. I’m being buried at sea.’'
Les Dawson (1931-1993)
Picture: Stephen Shepherd
Archer MartinDied 28 Jul 2002 at age 92 (born 1 Mar 1910). Archer John Porter Martin was an English biochemist whoshared(with R.L.M. Synge)the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1952fordevelopmentof paper partition chromatography using two different liquids moving at right angles. This quick and economical analytical technique separates the different components of a mixture, permitting their identification and analysis. As a new tool, it provided extensive advances in chemical, medical, and biological research. In 1941 Martin and Synge had realized that the partition of a solute between a gas and a liquid was possible, but it was in the early 1950s that Martin developed the technique of gas-liquid chromatography with A. T. James. |
