Synge, Richard Laurence Millington (1914-2000), a British biochemist, shared in 1952 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography. This is a method for analyzing substances in small samples of complicated mixtures. Each substance in a drop of solution is allowed to move at its own rate when placed on specially prepared filter paper. Then the structure of important large molecules can be inferred. Synge was born in Liverpool, England.