Denis Henry Desty FRS was a British scientist and inventor, known primarily for his work in the fields of chromatography

Chromatography

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 and combustion science

Combustion

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Desty twice won the Tswett Medal for Chromatography, in 1974 and 1978, and the Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry

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Award for Combustion Chemistry in 1982.

Desty's contributions to the field of chromatography are remembered to this day by the presentation of an annual Desty Memorial Award for Innovation In Separation Science