Richard Laurence Millington Synge

Richard Laurence Millington (R. L. M.) Synge FRS FRSE FRIC FRSC MRIA was a British biochemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. Synge was born in West Kirby, the son of Lawrence Millington Synge and his wife, Katherine C. Swan. Synge was educated at the Old Hall School in Wellington, Shropshire, and at Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, England. He then studied Chemistry at Trinity College, Cambridge. He spent his …