Anthony T. James | British scientist | Britannica (original) (raw)
…collaboration with the British chemist Anthony T. James initiated studies of gas-liquid partition chromatography. In 1952 Martin and Synge were awarded the Nobel Prize for their work, perhaps not so much for the newness of the technique but for a model that suggested other systems, a mathematical theory, and an…- James and A.J.P. Martin provided chemists with a method of separating mixtures of volatile substances into their component fractions. In this technique the substance to be analyzed is introduced into a stream of gas, usually helium or nitrogen, and carried by it through a capillary…