Editing Paper chromatography (section)

== History of paper chromatography ==
The discovery of paper chromatography in 1943 by [[Archer Martin|Martin]] and [[Richard Laurence Millington Synge|Synge]] provided, for the first time, the means of surveying constituents of plants and for their separation and identification.<ref name=haslam07/> [[Erwin Chargaff]] credits in Weintraub's history of the man the 1944 article by Consden, Gordon and Martin.<ref name="consden44">{{cite journal |doi=10.1042/bj0380224|title=Qualitative analysis of proteins: A partition chromatographic method using paper|year=1944|last1=Consden|first1=R.|last2=Gordon|first2=A. H.|last3=Martin|first3=A. J. P.|journal=Biochemical Journal|volume=38|issue=3|pages=224–232|pmid=16747784|pmc=1258072}}</ref><ref name="weintraub06">{{cite journal |last1=Weintraub |first1=Bob |title=Erwin Chargaff and Chargaff's Rules |journal=Chemistry in Israel - Bulletin of the Israel Chemical Society |date=September 2006 |issue=22 |pages=29–31 |url=https://drive.goo-gle.com/file/d/13dBvbCTMVmko67B7GZGH7ck_HwIVmJ_2-rT7MbU_dqQUGQz6YeRpb-rY1ucz/edit?usp=sharing}}</ref> There was an explosion of activity in this field after 1945.<ref name=haslam07>{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.phytochem.2007.09.009 |title=Vegetable tannins – Lessons of a phytochemical lifetime |year=2007 |last1=Haslam |first1=Edwin |author-link1=Edwin Haslam |journal=Phytochemistry |volume=68 |issue=22–24 |pages=2713–21 |pmid=18037145|bibcode=2007PChem..68.2713H }}</ref>