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- ↑ Lyman C. Craig (1944). "Identification of Small Amounts of Organic Compounds by Distribution Studies. II. Separation by Counter-current Distribution". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 155: 535–546.
- ↑ Craig, Lyman C. (1973). "High resolution in countercurrent extraction". Journal of Chromatography A. 83: 67–76. doi:10.1016/S0021-9673(00)97028-6.
- ↑ Friesen, J. Brent; McAlpine, James B.; Chen, Shao-Nong; Pauli, Guido F. (2015). "Countercurrent Separation of Natural Products: An Update". Journal of Natural Products. 78 (7): 1765–1796. doi:10.1021/np501065h. PMC 4517501 . PMID 26177360.
- ↑ Craig, L C.; Gregory, J D.; Hausmann, Werner. (1950). "Versatile Laboratory Concentration Device". Analytical Chemistry. 22 (11): 1462. doi:10.1021/ac60047a601.
- ↑ Lyman C. Craig page at The Rockefeller University
- ↑ Craig, Lyman C.; Post, Otto W. (1944). "Improved Apparatus for Solubility Determination or for Small-Scale Recrystallization". Ind. Eng. Chem. Anal. Ed. 16 (6): 413–414. doi:10.1021/i560130a031.
- ↑ Kresge, Nicole; Simoni, Robert D.; Hill, Robert L. (2005). "Lyman Creighton Craig: Developer of the Counter-current Distribution Method". Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280: 127–129. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
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- ↑ Cached page at the Nobel Prize site Archived 2016-10-28 at the Wayback Machine
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