Archer John Porter Martin — British Scientist born on March 01, 1910, died on July 28, 2002

Archer John Porter Martin, FRS was an English chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge... (wikipedia)

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
Since, however, it is immaterial whether the work is done by assistants or a machine, I decided to build a machine equivalent to an array of about 200 separating funnels.