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Early History of Chromatography

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RECENTLY, Drs. H. Weil and T. I. Williams made the following statements with reference to D. T. Day's investigations1: “L. Zechmeister's opinion that Day ‘might in favourable circumstances have been successful in the elaboration of chromatographic procedures’ seems, therefore, rather less than just [my italics], for Day conforms closely to that author's definition of chromatography …”. The above comments refer to a recent progress report2 in which I have devoted half of the first page to Day's work, since I consider it, as well as Gilpin's papers (written under Day's influence), as typical of chromatographic experiments.

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  1. Weil, H., and Williams, T. I., Nature, 166, 1000 (1950).

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  2. Zechmeister, L., “Progress in Chromatography 1938–1947” (London: Chapman and Hall; New York: Wiley, 1950).

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  3. Zechmeister, L., Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 49, 145 (1948).

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ZECHMEISTER, L. Early History of Chromatography. Nature 167, 405–406 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167405a0

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