Advances in chromatography

329 The volume of M.S. Tswett’s selected works pre pared by the Russian Academy of Sciences includes the major part of the body of the doctoral dissertation by the inventor of chromatography, defended in 1911. This voluminous dissertation was published as a sepa rate monograph (Khromofilly v Rastitel’nom i Zhivot nom Mire (Chromophylls in the Plant and Animal Kingdom), Warsaw, 1910)). Though the title of the book was not “chromatographic,” it described the results of the author’s work on the technique of chro matography. However, the first book devoted to this method is usually considered Zechmeister and Chol noky’s monograph published in German in 1937 [1]; it played a significant role in the development of chro matography, in the approval of its name, and the rec ognition of Tswett’s priority.