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Visit to Poland
SYNG/G/15-16 · File · 1952-1954
Part of Papers of Richard Synge

Synge's visit, between 20 September and 4 October 1952. was supported by the Polish Cultural Institute. During his visit the award of the 1952 Nobel prize for Chemistry to Synge and A.J.P. Martin was announced.

G/15: Correspondence re arrangements, 1952; manuscript rough draft of lecture on 'Principles of chromatography', Warsaw, 26 September 1952.
G/16: Correspondence arising, 1952-1954; typescript note on work of the Polish botanist M.S. Tsvet, 1953; etc.

Martin, A.J.P.
SYNG/J/186-188 · File · 1944–1973
Part of Papers of Richard Synge

Martin and Synge shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their invention of partition chromatography.

J/186-J/187: Letters from Martin in Leeds where he was based at the Wool Industries Research Association, 1936-1946. Almost all the letters are undated.
J/188: 1947–1948, 1951-1953, 1955-1956, 1965, 1970, 1973, and undated

SYNG/E/64-65 · File · c 1944-1945
Part of Papers of Richard Synge

Contents of Synge's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference.

E/64: Correspondence from O. Rosenheim 1944, and A. J. P. Martin; 'The non-identity of Thudichum's glycoleucine and norleucine', manuscript and typescript rough draft and 3pp typescript draft dated 8 February 1945.
E/65: Manuscript and typescript notes and pages of drafts, some in Rosenheim's hand.

American Cyanamid Company
SYNG/J/8 · File · 1948-1949
Part of Papers of Richard Synge

Correspondence re Gramicidin S.

Synge's contact with the Company was initiated by A.J.P. Martin, represented by two letters in the folder.