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Archer Martin was born at 1910-03-01

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Archer Martin was died at 2002-07-28

Where was Archer Martin died?

Archer Martin was died in Llangarron, Wales

Which age was Archer Martin died?

Archer Martin was died at age 92

Where is Archer Martin's birth place?

Archer Martin was born in London, England

What is Archer Martin nationalities?

Archer Martin's nationalities is British

Who is Archer Martin spouses?

Archer Martin's spouses is Judith Bagenal

What was Archer Martin universities?

Archer Martin studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge

Who is Archer Martin's father?

Archer Martin's father is William Archer Porter Martin

Who is Archer Martin's mother?

Archer Martin's mother is Lilian Kate Brown Ayling

How famous is Archer Martin?

Archer Martin is famouse as Chemist

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Archer John Porter Martin was a British chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952

Information	Detail
Birthday	March 1, 1910
Died on	July 28, 2002
Nationality	British
Famous	Scientists, Chemists
Spouses	Judith Bagenal
Known as	Archer John Porter Martin
Universities	Peterhouse Cambridge
Birth Place	London, England
Gender	Male
Father	William Archer Porter Martin
Mother	Lilian Kate Brown Ayling
Sun Sign	Pisces
Born in	London, England
Famous as	Chemist
Died at Age	92

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Who is Archer Martin?

Archer John Porter Martin was a British chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952 for the development of modern chromatography technique which helps to separate different compounds in a mixture. He shared the prize with another biochemist, Richard Lawrence Millington Sygne. Before his technique was adopted by others, it had been very difficult to separate the compounds as chemical reactions never produced any clean and pure products. To obtain the compounds in the pure form even repetitive, distillation, crystallization and the extraction of solvents were not sufficient. Though Mikhail Tswett, a Russian-Italian chemist had invented the first method of absorption chromatography in the early twentieth century, the method never became popular. On the other hand Martin invented three different types of chromatography techniques, namely partition, paper and gas-liquid chromatography, which became very popular and are still used today. By the end of 1953 his chromatography technique had spread like wildfire because the academia and the industry had been waiting long for a technique that could separate relatively volatile compounds cleanly and quickly. The oil and the gas companies benefited the most from his discoveries. He acted as a consultant to many firms during the later years of his career.

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Childhood & Early Life

Archer Martin was born in Upper Holloway in London on March 1, 1910.

His father, William Archer Porter Martin, was an Irish doctor and his mother, Lilian Kate Brown Ayling, was a nurse. He had an elder sister named Nora.

The family moved to Bedford in 1920 where Martin attended the Bedford School from 1921 to 1929.

He earned a scholarship to study chemical engineering at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1929.

At the insistence of the famous biochemist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane at Cambridge, Marin switched over to biochemistry from chemical engineering.

After graduation in 1932, he worked at the physical chemistry laboratory before joining the university’s ‘Dunn Nutritional Laboratory’ in 1933.

He worked here till 1939 on the isolation of Vitamin E in collaboration with Tommy Moore and Leslie J. Harris and with Sir Charles Martin in isolating the anti-pellagra factor.

He received his PhD in 1936.

In 1938 Martin met fellow graduate student, Richard L. M. Synge and started working together in the development of a better concurrent extraction equipment.

Career

In 1938 Archer Martin took up a biochemist’s job at the ‘Wool Industries and Research Association’ or ‘WIRA’ at Leeds. He continued to build more elaborate concurrent apparatus until he was successful in building one that worked.

In 1939 Synge also joined him at the WIRA and they were able to develop a partition-chromatographic technique which could successfully separate acelytated amino acids.

On June 7, 1941, they demonstrated their partition chromatography to the ‘Biochemical Society’ at the ‘National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead’.

Martin and Sygne suggested fine particles and high pressures for improving the separation which came to be used in the high-pressure liquid chromatography in the mid 1970s.

They helped the war effort during the Second World War by inventing a cloth to protect soldiers from mustard gas.

In 1943 Synge left WIRA. Martin carried on with his experiments on paper chromatography with Raphel Consden.

In 1944 Martin developed paper-chromatography using filter paper which was cheap, easily available and could absorb water and demonstrated his findings to the ‘Biochemical society’ at the ‘Middlesex Hospital, London’ on March 25, 1944.

Martin joined as the head of the ‘Biochemistry Division’ of the ‘Boots Pure Drug Company’ (BPDC) in Nottingham and worked there from 1946 to 1948.

In 1948 he left the BPDC and joined ‘Medical Research Council’ (MRC) in London which was earlier known as the ‘Lister Institute’.

In 1950 he joined the flagship company of MRC the ‘National Institute for Medical Research’ (NIMR) at Mill Hill near London and started working there with Tony James under director Sir Charles Harington.

In 1952 he became the head of ‘Division of Physical Chemistry’ of this Institute

While at NIMR, Martin used gas-liquid chromatography which he had explored with Synge years earlier to help a colleague, Geroge Popjak separate a mixture of fatty acids from goat’s milk.

Martin demonstrated his new technique to the ‘Biochemical Society’ at NIMR on October 20, 1950 and to the ‘International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’ at the ‘Dyson Perrins Laboratory’ in Oxford in September 1952.

He left NIMR in 1956 and concentrated more on machinery than scientific research. He could not keep up with the changes occurring in the field of biochemistry and was left out while other moved ahead.

He bought Abbotsbury in 1957 with the Nobel Award prize money and set up ‘Abbotsbury Laboratories Ltd.’ where he concentrated on the isolation of compounds in eggs, milk and liver that can cause inflammation.

He held a visiting professorship at the ‘Technical University of Eindhoven’ from 1969 to 1974 and acted as a consultant to ‘Philips Electronics, Netherlands’.

He was made a consultant for the research laboratories of ‘Wellcome Foundation’ in Beckenham, Kent in 1970, but left it in 1973.

He joined the ‘University of Sussex’ in 1973 where he set up a research team with funding from the ‘Medical Research Council’. He tried to isolate insulin from pig gut and at developing a vacuum pump for freeze-drying and a hand-held pump for needle-free vaccine administration.

In 1974 he took up ‘Robert A. Welch Professorship’ at the ‘University of Houston’ in Texas, US but his professorship was terminated in 1979 due to some disagreements with the authorities.

He retired in 1984 and returned to Cambridge with his family.

Major Works

Archer Martin’s book ‘Separation of Higher Monoamino-Acids by Counter-Current Liquid-liquid Extraction : The Amino-Acid Composition of Wool’ written with Richard L. M. Synge was published in 1941.

The book ‘Qualitative Analysis of Proteins: A Partition Chromatographic Method Using Paper’ written with Raphel Consden and A. Hugh Gordon was published in 1944.

‘Gas-Liquid Partition Chromatography: The Separation and Micro-Estimation of Volatile Fatty Acids from Formic Acid to Dodecanoic Acid’ written in collaboration with Anthony T. James was published in 1952.

Awards & Achievements

Archer Martin was made a ‘Fellow of the Royal Society’ in 1950.

He received the ‘Berzelius Medal’ from the ‘Swedish Medical Society’ in 1951.

He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1952.

He received the ‘John Scott Award’ in 1958, the ‘John Price Wetherill Medal’ in 1959, the ‘Franklin Institute Medal’ in 1959 and the ‘Leverhulme Medal’ in 1963.

He was honored with CBE in 1960.

Personal Life & Legacy

He married Judith Bagenal in 1943 and had three daughters and two sons from the marriage.

He had dyslexia till the age of eight and was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1985. He was moved to a nursing home in Llangarron in 1996.

Archer Martin died on July 28, 2002 at a nursing home in Llangarron in Herefordshire in England.

Trivia

Archer Martin could not get a job in any organization because he lacked enough managerial and organizational skills.

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Archer Martin's awards

Year	Name	Award
Other
0	Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1952)
0	John Price Wetherill Medal (1959)

Archer Martin biography timelines

// 1st Mar 1910
Archer Martin was born in Upper Holloway in London on March 1, 1910.
// 1929
He earned a scholarship to study chemical engineering at Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1929.
// 1932 To 1933
After graduation in 1932, he worked at the physical chemistry laboratory before joining the university’s ‘Dunn Nutritional Laboratory’ in 1933.
// 1936
He received his PhD in 1936.
// 1938
In 1938 Martin met fellow graduate student, Richard L. M. Synge and started working together in the development of a better concurrent extraction equipment.
// 1938
In 1938 Archer Martin took up a biochemist’s job at the ‘Wool Industries and Research Association’ or ‘WIRA’ at Leeds. He continued to build more elaborate concurrent apparatus until he was successful in building one that worked.
// 1939
He worked here till 1939 on the isolation of Vitamin E in collaboration with Tommy Moore and Leslie J. Harris and with Sir Charles Martin in isolating the anti-pellagra factor.
// 1939
In 1939 Synge also joined him at the WIRA and they were able to develop a partition-chromatographic technique which could successfully separate acelytated amino acids.
// 1941
Archer Martin’s book ‘Separation of Higher Monoamino-Acids by Counter-Current Liquid-liquid Extraction : The Amino-Acid Composition of Wool’ written with Richard L. M. Synge was published in 1941.
// 7th Jun 1941
On June 7, 1941, they demonstrated their partition chromatography to the ‘Biochemical Society’ at the ‘National Institute for Medical Research, Hampstead’.
// 1943
In 1943 Synge left WIRA. Martin carried on with his experiments on paper chromatography with Raphel Consden.
// 1943
He married Judith Bagenal in 1943 and had three daughters and two sons from the marriage.
// 1944
The book ‘Qualitative Analysis of Proteins: A Partition Chromatographic Method Using Paper’ written with Raphel Consden and A. Hugh Gordon was published in 1944.
// 25th Mar 1944
In 1944 Martin developed paper-chromatography using filter paper which was cheap, easily available and could absorb water and demonstrated his findings to the ‘Biochemical society’ at the ‘Middlesex Hospital, London’ on March 25, 1944.
// 1946 To 1948
Martin joined as the head of the ‘Biochemistry Division’ of the ‘Boots Pure Drug Company’ (BPDC) in Nottingham and worked there from 1946 to 1948.
// 1948
In 1948 he left the BPDC and joined ‘Medical Research Council’ (MRC) in London which was earlier known as the ‘Lister Institute’.
// 1950
In 1950 he joined the flagship company of MRC the ‘National Institute for Medical Research’ (NIMR) at Mill Hill near London and started working there with Tony James under director Sir Charles Harington.
// 1950
Archer Martin was made a ‘Fellow of the Royal Society’ in 1950.
// 20th Oct 1950 To Sep 1952
Martin demonstrated his new technique to the ‘Biochemical Society’ at NIMR on October 20, 1950 and to the ‘International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’ at the ‘Dyson Perrins Laboratory’ in Oxford in September 1952.
// 1951
He received the ‘Berzelius Medal’ from the ‘Swedish Medical Society’ in 1951.
// 1952
In 1952 he became the head of ‘Division of Physical Chemistry’ of this Institute
// 1952
‘Gas-Liquid Partition Chromatography: The Separation and Micro-Estimation of Volatile Fatty Acids from Formic Acid to Dodecanoic Acid’ written in collaboration with Anthony T. James was published in 1952.
// 1952
He won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1952.
// 1956
He left NIMR in 1956 and concentrated more on machinery than scientific research. He could not keep up with the changes occurring in the field of biochemistry and was left out while other moved ahead.
// 1957
He bought Abbotsbury in 1957 with the Nobel Award prize money and set up ‘Abbotsbury Laboratories Ltd.’ where he concentrated on the isolation of compounds in eggs, milk and liver that can cause inflammation.
// 1960
He was honored with CBE in 1960.
// 1969 To 1974
He held a visiting professorship at the ‘Technical University of Eindhoven’ from 1969 to 1974 and acted as a consultant to ‘Philips Electronics, Netherlands’.
// 1970 To 1973
He was made a consultant for the research laboratories of ‘Wellcome Foundation’ in Beckenham, Kent in 1970, but left it in 1973.
// 1973
He joined the ‘University of Sussex’ in 1973 where he set up a research team with funding from the ‘Medical Research Council’. He tried to isolate insulin from pig gut and at developing a vacuum pump for freeze-drying and a hand-held pump for needle-free vaccine administration.
// 1974 To 1979
In 1974 he took up ‘Robert A. Welch Professorship’ at the ‘University of Houston’ in Texas, US but his professorship was terminated in 1979 due to some disagreements with the authorities.
// 1984
He retired in 1984 and returned to Cambridge with his family.
// 1985 To 1996
He had dyslexia till the age of eight and was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1985. He was moved to a nursing home in Llangarron in 1996.
// 28th Jul 2002
Archer Martin died on July 28, 2002 at a nursing home in Llangarron in Herefordshire in England.

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Archer Martin's FAQ

What is Archer Martin birthday?
Archer Martin was born at 1910-03-01
When was Archer Martin died?
Archer Martin was died at 2002-07-28
Where was Archer Martin died?
Archer Martin was died in Llangarron, Wales
Which age was Archer Martin died?
Archer Martin was died at age 92
Where is Archer Martin's birth place?
Archer Martin was born in London, England
What is Archer Martin nationalities?
Archer Martin's nationalities is British
Who is Archer Martin spouses?
Archer Martin's spouses is Judith Bagenal
What was Archer Martin universities?
Archer Martin studied at Peterhouse, Cambridge
Who is Archer Martin's father?
Archer Martin's father is William Archer Porter Martin
Who is Archer Martin's mother?
Archer Martin's mother is Lilian Kate Brown Ayling
What is Archer Martin's sun sign?
Archer Martin is Pisces
How famous is Archer Martin?
Archer Martin is famouse as Chemist