1914- . British biochemist who investigated
paper chromatography (a means of separating
mixtures). By 1940 techniques of
chromatography for separating proteins had
been devised. Still lacking were comparable
techniques for distinguishing the amino acids
that constituted the proteins. By 1944, Synge
and his colleague Archer Martin had worked
out a procedure, known as ascending
chromatography, which filled this gap and won
them the 1952 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.