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Archer Martin

1910 - 2002

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Archer John Porter Martin (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Archer Martin is the 51st most popular chemist (up from 116th in 2019), the 252nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 516th in 2019) and the 9th most popular British Chemist.

Archer Martin is most famous for his work with James Watt and Harold A. Wilson in the development of the gas mask.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Archer Martin ranks 51 out of 602. Before him are Adolf von Baeyer, Fritz Pregl, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Victor Grignard, Arthur Harden, and Adolf Butenandt. After him are Otto Diels, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, Walther Nernst, Rodney Robert Porter, Robert Bunsen, and Justus von Liebig.

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Among people born in 1910, Archer Martin ranks 8. Before him are Akira Kurosawa, Giuseppe Meazza, Jacques Cousteau, Ingrid of Sweden, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, and Robert K. Merton. After him are Lee Byung-chul, Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Hodgkin, Gloria Stuart, Irena Sendler, and Jean Genet. Among people deceased in 2002, Archer Martin ranks 9. Before him are Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Simo Häyhä, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, Pierre Bourdieu, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Thor Heyerdahl. After him are Billy Wilder, Prince Claus of the Netherlands, John Rawls, László Kubala, Traudl Junge, and Niki de Saint Phalle.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Archer Martin ranks 252 out of 8,785. Before him are C. F. Powell (1903), Charlotte Rampling (1946), Henry III of England (1207), Arthur Harden (1865), Horace Walpole (1717), and John A. Macdonald (1815). After him are Roger Moore (1927), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), James Hunt (1947), John Snow (1813), Cary Grant (1904), and Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Archer Martin ranks 9. Before him are John Macleod (1876), Alexander R. Todd (1907), Robert Robinson (1886), Humphry Davy (1778), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), and Arthur Harden (1865). After him are Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Frederick Soddy (1877), Francis William Aston (1877), Norman Haworth (1883), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), and Frederick Sanger (1918).

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