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His father was a GP . He was educated at Bedford School and Cambridge University . Working first in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory, he moved to the Dunn Nutritional Laboratory , and in 1938 moved to Wool Industries Research Institution in Leeds . He was head of the Biochemistry Division of Boots Pure Drug Company from 1946 to 1948 , when he joined the Medical Research Council . There, he was appointed Head of the Physical Chemistry Division of the National Institute For Medical Research in 1952 and was Chemical Consultant from 1956 to 1959 .

He specialised in Biochemistry, in some aspects of Vitamin s E and B2, and in techniques that laid the foundation for Chromatography . He developed partition chromatography whilst working on the separation of Amino Acid s, and later developed gas-liquid chromatography. Amongst many other honours, he received his Nobel Prize in 1952 .

He was married, with one son and three daughters.