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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Chemistry (180) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1950s (72) 1952 (7) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1910s (117) 1914 (8) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, western (207) United Kingdom (101) Liverpool (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1990s (82) 1994 (10) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, western (182) United Kingdom (86) Norwich (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name L-R (240) R (80) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name S-Z (212) S (103) 21. Shared Given Name 21. Shared Given Name L-R (156) R (59) Richard (15) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 30 - 39 (40) 39 (10) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations (601) Life Scientists (181) Biological Scientists (181) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, western (223) United Kingdom (110) 39. Worked for Medical Organization 39. Worked for Medical Organization Europe (25) Europe, western (22) United Kingdom (19) Bucksburn (1) Rowett Research Institute (1) 42. Affilliation with College or University 42. Affilliation with College or University Europe (535) Europe, western (390) United Kingdom (235) Cambridge (118) University of Cambridge (118) Alumni (69) 44. Memberships 44. Memberships R-T (460) R (448) Royal Society (294) 45. Other Awards 45. Other Awards E-F (439) F (394) Fellow of the Royal Society (101) I-J (268) J (208) John Price Wetherill Medal (6) complete name: Richard Laurence Millington Synge nobel prize: chemistry award year: 1952 together with: Archer Martin prize share: Prize share: 1/2 rational: 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." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts laureate lecture: Lecture given name: Richard family name: Synge occupation: chemist occupation: university teacher occupation: biochemist field of work: biochemistry work location: University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom description: Richard Laurence Millington Synge was a British biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. Synge was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge. He spent his entire career in research, at the Wool Industries Research Association, Leeds (1941-1943), Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine, London (1943-1948), Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen (1948-1967), and Food Research Institute, Norwich (1967-1976). It was during his time in Leeds that he worked with Archer Martin, developing partition chromatography, a technique used in the separation mixtures of similar chemicals, that revolutionized analytical chemistry. Between 1942 and 1948 he studied peptides of the protein group gramicidin, work later used by Frederick Sanger in determining the structure of insulin. In March 1950 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for which his candidature citation read: Distinguished as a biochemist. Was the first to show the possibility of using counter-current liquid-liquid extraction in the separation of N-acetylamino acids. In collaboration with A.J.P. Martin this led to the development of partition chromatography, which they have applied with conspicuous success in problems related to the composition and structure of proteins, particularly wool keratin. Synge's recent work on the composition and structure of gramicidins is outstanding and illustrates vividly the great advances in technique for which he and Martin are responsible.— "Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. He was for several years the treasurer of the Chemical Information Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and held a Professorship in Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia from 1968-1984. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science (ScD) from the University of East Anglia in 1977, and an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Mathematics and Science at Uppsala University, Sweden in 1980. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1952/summary/> date birth: 1914 date death: 1994 usual name: Richard Synge
