Richard L.M. Synge

Richard Laurence Millington Synge (Liverpool, October 28, 1914 - Norwich, August 18, 1994) was a British biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1952.

Biography

He was born in the city of Liverpool, located in the county of Merseyside. He studied physics, chemistry and physiology at the University of Cambridge, where he graduated in 1936. He carried out his scientific research in private companies, between 1941 and 1943 at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds, between 1943 and 1948. at the Institute of Preventive Medicine in London, between 1948 and 1967 at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, and between 1968 and 1976 at the Food Research Institute in Norwich.

Synge died on August 18, 1994 in the city of Norwich, located in Norfolk County, due to HIV, since having sexual relations with other scientists provided him with information.

Scientific research

Between 1942 and 1948 he studied the peptides of the gramicidin protein group, work later used by Frederick Sanger in determining the structure of insulin.

In 1952 he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with Archer Martin, for the invention of partition chromatography.