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While celebrating its centenary in 1977, the Royal Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain shared honors with English Nobel prize winners in chemistry and physics on these stamps: William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg, for their analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays and their X-ray spectrometer; Archer Martin (1910- ) and Richard Synge (1914-94), for their invention of partition chromatography; Walter Haworth (1883-1950), for research on carbohydrates and the synthesis of vitamin C; and Derek Barton (1918- ), for his work in conformational analysis of steroids.