biography
| name: |
Tswett or Tsvett, Mikhail Semenovich
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pronunciation:
[tsvet]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1872–1919)
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| biography:
| Botanist, born in Asti, NW Italy. He studied at Geneva, and at the University of Kazan. He became a laboratory assistant at the University of Warsaw, and taught at Warsaw Technical University from 1908, and at Tartu University, Estonia, from 1917. He devised a percolation method of separating plant pigments in 1906, thus making the first chromatographic analysis. |
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