Biography on paper chromatography

(b. Upper Holloway, London, 1 March 1910; d. Llangarron, Herefordshire, 28 July 2002),

analytical chemistry, chromatography, biochemistry.

Martin was effectively the founder of modern chromatography, a method of separating different compounds in a mixture.

Biography on paper chromatography

The Italian-born Russian chemist Mikhail Tswett is usually credited with invention of chromatography at the beginning of the twentieth century, but the form of chromatography he developed—absorption chromatography—was rarely used for more than two decades after his early death and is hardly ever used in the early twenty-first century.

By contrast, Martin invented three forms of chromatography—partition chromatography, paper chromatography, and gas-liquid chromatography— which were rapidly adopted and are still used intensively as of 2007. Even the other two forms of chromatography in common use—thin-layer chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography—owe much to Martin’s work.

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