biography
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Synge, R(ichard) L(aurence) M(illington)
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pronunciation:
[sing]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914–94)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Chester, Cheshire, NWC England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and joined the Wool Industry Research Association at Leeds (1941–3), where he worked with Archer Martin in devising the chromatographic methods that revolutionized analytical chemistry. He spent much of his career at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen (1948–67) and the Food Research Institute at Norwich (1967–76). He shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Martin. |
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