Archer john porter martin biography books

This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel..

Martin's research work thus sheds new light on the nature of scientific discovery.

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This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel.

Martin Archer is the pen name of the economics professor, art collector, and once upon a time soldier and politician, John Lindauer.

Archer John Porter Martin was born on March 1, 1910, in London, England.

Archer Martin

British chemist

Archer John Porter MartinCBE FRS (1 March 1910 – 28 July 2002) was a British chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge.^[1]^[2]

Early life

Martin's father was a GP.

Martin was educated at Bedford School, and Peterhouse, Cambridge.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Working first in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, he moved to the Dunn Nutritional Laboratory, and in 1938 moved to Wool Industries Research Institution in Leeds.

He was head of the biochemistry division of Boots Pure Drug Company from 1946 to 1948, when he joined the Medical Research Council. There, he was appointed head of the physical chemistry division of the National Institute for Medical Research in 1952, and was chemical consultant from 1956 to 1959.

He specialised in biochemistry, in some aspects of vitamins E and B₂, and in techniques that laid the foundation for sev