Richard Laurence Millington Synge



Richard Laurence Millington Synge

Richard Laurence Millington Synge
BornOctober 28 1914(1914-10-28)
Liverpool, England
DiedAugust 18 1994 (aged 79)
Norwich, England
FieldNobel Prize in Chemistry (1952)
Richard Laurence Millington Synge (born Liverpool, October 28 1914, died Norwich, August 18 1994) was a British chromatography.

He was a close friend of John H. Humphrey. Educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Cambridge, he spent his entire career in research, at locations including Wool Industries Research Association, Leeds (1941-1943), Lister Institute of 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 insulin.

He was for several years the treasurer of the Chemical Information Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

References

  • Hugh Gordon (1996). "Richard Laurence Millington Synge. 28 October 1914-18 August 1994". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 42: 454-479.
  • Sidney Elsden. "Richard Laurence Millington Synge".
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Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) • Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) • Hermann Staudinger (1953) • Linus Pauling (1954) • Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) • Nikolay Semyonov (1956) • Alexander Todd (1957) • Frederick Sanger (1958) • Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) • Willard Libby (1960) • Melvin Calvin (1961) • John Kendrew (1962) • Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) • Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) • Robert Woodward (1965) • Robert S. Mulliken (1966) • Manfred Eigen / Norrish / George Porter (1967) • Lars Onsager (1968) • Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) • Luis Federico Leloir (1970) • Gerhard Herzberg (1971) • Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) • Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) • Paul Flory (1974) • Vladimir Prelog (1975)

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