[1][2] It was funded by a levy raised under powers from the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947 through the Wool Textile Research Council, established in 1950.
In 1941 they published a paper entitled ‘A New Form of Chromatogram Employing Two Liquid Phases’[4] in the Biochemical Journal.
The second liquid was the organic solvent chloroform, and they separated acetamino-acids from protein hydrolysates.
Their paper was important because it laid the foundations of all the future work in the field of chromatography.
Looking at the figures they present for resolution in terms of Height Equivalent to a Theoretical Plate (HETP), underlying the importance of their work at that time.