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Richard Laurence Millington Synge

Liverpool, England, 1914 - 1994

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About MeIn 1952, Richard (Dick) Millington Synge was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with his research partner, Archer Morgan. Together they developed partition chromatography, a way of separating substances in gas mixtures to determine what makes up that gas. The pair’s work revolutionised analytical chemistry allowing the separation of mixtures of similar chemicals to determine their composition. Up until this time it had not been possible to separate a compound cleanly into its constituent elements.

Dick spent his entire career in research working at various institutes. He studied physics at the University of Cambridge and in 1948 he became the Head of the Department of Protein Chemistry at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen. There his work also focused on the study of the digestion of proteins and the nutritional value of bi-products from the herring industry. He remained in his role at the Rowett until 1967.
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