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Article: Fifty years of gas chromatography: Andrew Tipler and Mark Feder, gas chromatography specialists at PerkinElmer Instruments, chart the development of this ground-breaking chemical analysis technique. (Feature).(Brief Article)
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- Chemistry and Industry
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- April 15, 2002
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This year is the 50th anniversary of two important events: Archer John Porter Martin and Richard Laurence Millington Synge were awarded the Chemistry Nobel Prize for the invention of partition chromatography; and Anthony James and Martin published their seminal paper on the adaptation of separation by partition to gas chromatography. It is safe to say that gas-liquid partition chromatography (GLPC) revolutionised chemical analysis and, within a decade, became the most widely used laboratory technique.
GLPC also helped create the scientific instrument industry that emerged in the decade after World War II. Classical analytical methods were mostly wet chemistry ...