Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet, Russian Botanist
Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet (1872-1919) was a Russian botanist who invented adsorption chromatography. His last name is Russian for both color and flowering. Mikhail Tsvet invented chromatography in 1906 during his research on plant pigments. He used liquid-adsorption column chromatography with calcium carbonate as adsorbent and petrol ether ethanol mixtures as eluent to separate chlorophylls and carotenoids. His gravestone reads: He invented the separation of molecules which keeps humans in touch
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