Automatic recording scanner for radio chromatograms developed by Leslie Young and A.R. Morrison, 1958

Radio chromatography is a technique used to separate and analyse components of a mixture, particularly when those components are radioactive or labelled with radioactive isotopes.

Radioactive compounds were detected by passing strip chromatograms through the automatic recording scanner. The chromatograms were scanned automatically and approximately assessed the amount of radioactivity in the sample, with the output graphically recorded by the pen-recording milliammeter.

This is part of an apparatus used in the late 1950s at the Department of Biochemistry in St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, by biochemists Professor Leslie Young (1911-1992) and A.R. Morrison (dates unknown). Young spent much of his career studying toxic compounds and their impacts on molecules in the body, and this equipment was used in this research. They described the equipment in the Biochemical Journal in 1959 in the article: An Automatic Recording Scanner for Radiochromatograms.

Radio chromatography is a technique used to separate and analyse components of a mixture, particularly when those components are radioactive or labelled with radioactive isotopes.

Radioactive compounds were detected by passing strip chromatograms through the automatic recording scanner. The chromatograms were scanned automatically and approximately assessed the amount of radioactivity in the sample, with the output graphically recorded by the pen-recording milliammeter.

This part of the apparatus was the automated scanner, used in the late 1950s at the Department of Biochemistry in St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, by biochemists Professor Leslie Young (1911-1992) and A.R. Morrison (dates unknown). Young spent much of his career studying toxic compounds and their impacts on molecules in the body, and this equipment was used in this research. They described the equipment in the Biochemical Journal in 1959 in the article: An Automatic Recording Scanner for Radiochromatograms.

Radio chromatography is a technique used to separate and analyse components of a mixture, particularly when those components are radioactive or labelled with radioactive isotopes.

Radioactive compounds were detected by passing strip chromatograms through the automatic recording scanner. The chromatograms were scanned automatically and approximately assessed the amount of radioactivity in the sample, with the output graphically recorded by this pen-recording milliammeter.

This apparatus was used in the late 1950s at the Department of Biochemistry in St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, by biochemists Professor Leslie Young (1911-1992) and A.R. Morrison (dates unknown). Young spent much of his career studying toxic compounds and their impacts on molecules in the body, and this equipment was used in this research. They described the equipment in the Biochemical Journal in 1959 in the article: An Automatic Recording Scanner for Radiochromatograms.

Radio chromatography is a technique used to separate and analyse components of a mixture, particularly when those components are radioactive or labelled with radioactive isotopes.

Radioactive compounds were detected by passing strip chromatograms through the automatic recording scanner. The chromatograms were scanned automatically and approximately assessed the amount of radioactivity in the sample, they were passed trhough the Geiger-Muller tube pairing used to detect the radioactivity rate, with the output graphically recorded by the pen-recording milliammeter.

This apparatus was used in the late 1950s at the Department of Biochemistry in St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, by biochemists Professor Leslie Young (1911-1992) and A.R. Morrison (dates unknown). Young spent much of his career studying toxic compounds and their impacts on molecules in the body, and this equipment was used in this research. They described the equipment in the Biochemical Journal in 1959 in the article: An Automatic Recording Scanner for Radiochromatograms.