The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952
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Archer John Porter Martin
Prize share: 1/2
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Richard Laurence Millington Synge
Prize share: 1/2
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952 was awarded jointly to Archer John Porter Martin and Richard Laurence Millington Synge "for their invention of partition chromatography"
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