SGE and the Royal Australian Chemistry Institute (RACI) recently hosted “A Century of Chromatography” to commemorate 100 years since the first official scientific separation was recorded. Held on-site at SGE’s R&D Manufacturing facilities in Ringwood, Australia, the event paid tribute to Russian botanist Mikhail Semenovich Tswett’s first chromatographic analysis with a series of presentations, a site tour and a historical display. Key figures in chromatography, such as Professors Milton Hearn, Paul Haddad and Phil Marriott, provided historical overviews and predictions for the future of separation science.

“The presence of Ian McWilliam, inventor of the flame ionization detector, represented a key milestone that has enabled gas chromatography to become the widely used technique it is today,” said Peter Dawes, SGE Managing Director.