Richard Laurence Millington Synge

Richard Laurence Millington Synge ( born October 28, 1914 in Liverpool, England; † 18 August 1994 in Norwich ) was an English chemist.

Between 1942 and 1948 he carried out investigations of peptides of the gramicidin, a work that was later used by Frederick Sanger, to determine the structure of insulin.

Synge received the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Archer JP Martin " for their invention of partition chromatography ".