SYNGE RICHARD L.M.: (1914-1994) British Biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1952. Manuscript D.S., R L M ...

SYNGE RICHARD L.M.: (1914-1994) British Biochemist, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, 1952. Manuscript D.S., R L M Synge, one page, 4to, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeenshire, 27th April 1953. Synge responds to a researcher's questionnaire entitled World Inquiry, with their questions at the head of the page, 1. Were your scientific ''debut'' easy or difficult? 2. Did means of living (another profession or a private income) enable you to make yourself known in science? Or did you live solely through your work of laboratory? 3. What work (or what discovery) made yourself more famous? Synge provides his answers immediately beneath, '1. I suppose rather easy. 2. Lived nearly entirely from laboratory work. 3. Invention of partition chromatography with A. J. P. Martin, 1941'. Synge also suggests the researcher consults Les Prix Nobel en 1953 for further information and apologises for the delay in replying. Some very light, extremely minor foxing and a few small, neat tears to the edges, otherwise VG