Archer Martin

Archer Martin, who was Royal Society Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sussex from 1973 to 1984 has died aged 92.

Martin shared the Nobel prize in 1952 with Richard Synge for the invention of partition chromatography, a method which made possible the rapid separation of small amounts of complex mixtures of biomolecules such as proteins. The techniques he pioneered led to advances in many fields of research.