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Archer John Porter Martin
1910 Mar, 1

Archer John Porter Martin

Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
Archer John Porter Martin (1 March 1910 – 28 July 2002) was a British chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge.

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