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135th BirthdayHappy Birthday Professor Tsvet!Chromatogram on the ceilingColorgramFrom Switzerland to RussiaThe Little Botanists I am continuing the series dedicated to the chromatography’s founder Mikhail Tsvet. So, in 1897 he moves to Russia from Switzerland, and here is his first impression of Russia:
“…during the first six months that I have been in Russia, in vain, I […]

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135th BirthdayHappy Birthday Professor Tsvet!Chromatogram on the ceilingColorgramFrom Switzerland to RussiaThe Little Botanists This is the next post from the series dedicated to 135th birthday anniversary of Prof. Tsvet, the chromatography’s founder.
Today, the application of the principle of a chromatographic substance separation is the foundation of many breakthroughs in science and technology. The analysis of […]

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135th BirthdayHappy Birthday Professor Tsvet!Chromatogram on the ceilingColorgramFrom Switzerland to RussiaThe Little Botanists So, Mikhail Tsvet was trying to solve the separation problem of the green leaf pigments. He took a glass cylinder, filled it with chalk powder, and poured a little bit of the alcohol leaf extract on the top layer . The extract […]

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135th BirthdayHappy Birthday Professor Tsvet!Chromatogram on the ceilingColorgramFrom Switzerland to RussiaThe Little Botanists Imagine yourself in a rather large and almost empty room with an iron bed in the corner. Autumn. Cold. Gloomy. It has been raining for days and the roof is leaking. In the opposite corner on the ceiling the wet spot is […]

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135th BirthdayHappy Birthday Professor Tsvet!Chromatogram on the ceilingColorgramFrom Switzerland to RussiaThe Little Botanists Today is 135th birthday anniversary of chromatography’s founding father Mikhail Tsvet and to celebrate his birthday I will be posting some interesting stories and facts from his life during the course of today this week.
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