Archer John Porter Martin

Archer John Porter Martin ( born March 1, 1910 in London, † 28 July 2002 Llangarron ) was a British chemist and Nobel Prize winner.

Biography

1932 Martin began studying at the University of Cambridge. Initially he worked there with physical chemistry, and later with nutrition. In 1938 he joined a textile research center in Leeds. In 1948 he became a member of the British government's Medical Research Council. Until 1952 he headed here, the Department of Physical Chemistry of the National Institute for Medical Research, later he was chemistry advisor. Since 1959 he was director of the private Abbotsbury Laboratories Ltd..

Work

Martin's interest in biochemistry was awakened by his professor at Cambridge. There he dealt with the isolation of vitamin E and the effects of vitamin E deficiency. He developed this effective methods for extraction and chromatography. The partition Martin developed while he worked on the isolation of amino acids. Later he conducted research in Vitamin B2 and a lack of it. Among many other awards Martin, Richard LM Synge received together with, in 1952 the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their invention of partition chromatography.