Archer John Porter Martin was an English chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1952, announced November 6, 1952. Archer J.P. Martin and Richard L.M. Synge, “for their invention of partition chromatography”. Archer J.P. Martin: born 1910, London, United Kingdom. Richard L.M. Synge: born 1914, Liverpool, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).