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Archer J. P. Martin
1910–2002 · United Kingdom · 20th century
Nobel Chemistry 1952
British biochemist who co-invented partition chromatography, the foundation of paper and gas chromatography used in every modern laboratory.
Nobel Prize work
Shared the prize with Richard Synge for inventing partition chromatography. By exploiting how compounds distribute themselves between two immiscible liquid phases, Martin created paper and gas chromatography, revolutionising the separation and analysis of complex mixtures.
Fields
Related topics
Gas chromatography (GC), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
Chromatography separates components because they partition differently between mobile and stationary phases.
Ion chromatography, capillary electrophoresis
Ion chromatography separates by ion-exchange retention; capillary electrophoresis separates by electrophoretic mobility in an electric field.