10 Maart WGS Leiden 2023

What was the big creation of Kovats?

1. Optimising the separation of normal alkanes
2. Setting up a database of the retention times of many compounds
3. Applying fast GC to normal alkanes
4. The application of retention indices in chromatography

What was the big breakthrough of Golay?

1. The invention of a mathematical filter
2. The mathematical equation of the theoretical plate height equation in capillary columns
3. Solving the resolution equation
4. Optimisation of a complex chromatographic separation

What was the great invention of Martin and Synge?

1. Their invention of capillary gas chromatography columns
2. Their invention of HPLC columns
3. They won the Nobel prize for their invention of partition chromatography
4. They invented capillary electrophoresis

Arne Tiselius is the inventor of which chromatographic technique?

1. Gas chromatography
2. Liquid Chromatography
3. Comprehensive GCxGC
4. Capillary electrophoresis

What was the great invention of
Hans-Gerd Janssen

1. Interpretation of chromatograms with UV light
2. GCxGC of lipids
3. Beer analysis
4. Just a joke

What barrier do you have to break in your laboratory?