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THE recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry this year is Prof. Arne Tiselius, who is well known to protein chemists in Great Britain. For many years he worked in the Physical Chemistry Institute of Prof. Svedberg at Uppsala, and became one of its most outstanding members. Recently a chair in biochemistry was created for him and a new Institute is in the course of construction. His greatest Work, and that for which he is most widely known, was in the development of an apparatus for the electrophoretic analysis of biological substances. The apparatus, which now bears his name, has made possible accurate measurements of the electrical properties of proteins and has been most extensively applied both as a test of protein purity and to characterize the components of more complex systems. In this connexion, the application to normal and pathological sera is of great clinical importance. The apparatus is undoubtedly one of the most powerful tools ever developed in the field of protein chemistry. More recently, Prof. Tiselius has returned to the study of adsorption analysis, a subject which interested him in his earlier research years. Since the introduction of chromatography by Tswett, the method has been employed and developed on somewhat empirical lines. Prof. Tiselius and his school have studied the underlying principles involved in this type of separation and have developed elegant apparatus for the adsorption analysis of colourless substances. Many scientific men who have worked in his laboratory have benefited greatly by his patient application to their problems and by his wide knowledge. All who know him well will agree that this latest honour is indeed well deserved.
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Nobel Prize for Chemistry : Prof. Arne Tiselius. Nature 162, 766 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162766b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162766b0