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Richard Laurence Millington Synge

1914 - 1994

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Richard Laurence Millington Synge (28 October 1914 – 18 August 1994) was a British biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Laurence Millington Synge is the 87th most popular chemist (up from 114th in 2019), the 376th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 505th in 2019) and the 16th most popular British Chemist.

Richard Laurence Millington Synge was an Irish playwright and poet. He is most famous for his play The Playboy of the Western World.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Richard Laurence Millington Synge ranks 87 out of 602. Before him are Frederick Sanger, Carl Bosch, Robert S. Mulliken, Friedrich Bergius, Hans Fischer, and James B. Sumner. After him are J. D. Bernal, Ernst Otto Fischer, Thomas Midgley Jr., Theodor Svedberg, Valery Legasov, and M. Stanley Whittingham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Richard Laurence Millington Synge ranks 14. Before him are Mohammed Zahir Shah, Tyrone Power, Tenzing Norgay, Marguerite Duras, Julio Cortázar, and Octavio Paz. After him are Alec Guinness, Jiang Qing, Richard Widmark, Michael Wittmann, Jack LaLanne, and Romain Gary. Among people deceased in 1994, Richard Laurence Millington Synge ranks 20. Before him are Dorothy Hodgkin, Jeffrey Dahmer, Giulietta Masina, Jan Tinbergen, Kurt Cobain, and Harry Nilsson. After him are Antônio Carlos Jobim, Melina Mercouri, Andrei Chikatilo, André Michel Lwoff, Léon Degrelle, and John Wayne Gacy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Richard Laurence Millington Synge ranks 376 out of 8,785. Before him are Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1884), Joe Cocker (1944), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Christian de Duve (1917), Olivia Newton-John (1948), and Brian Jones (1942). After him are Alec Guinness (1914), David Lloyd George (1863), Arthur Evans (1851), Robert Fripp (1946), Roger Penrose (1931), and William Wordsworth (1770).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Richard Laurence Millington Synge ranks 16. Before him are Rodney Robert Porter (1917), Frederick Soddy (1877), Francis William Aston (1877), Norman Haworth (1883), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), and Frederick Sanger (1918). After him are M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), William Crookes (1832), George Porter (1920), Harry Kroto (1939), Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (1897), and Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861).

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