Richard Laurence Millington Synge:
Richard Laurence Millington Synge was an English chemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 28, 1914 in Liverpool, England
Death:
August 18, 1994 in Norwich, England
Claim to Fame:
Synge was an English biochemist who shares the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Archer John Porter Martin for the invention of partition chromatography. Partition chromatography is a technique to separate similar substances by repeated extraction by two immiscible liquids. It can separate amino acids to aid in the study of proteins, carbohydrates and DNA.
