Herbert Weil

TL;DR: A detailed survey of the early literature of adsorption in petroleum technology recently initiated by one of us strongly suggests that, despite the powerful influence which his experiments have undoubtedly had on later generations, Tswett has received considerably more credit than is his due.

TL;DR: It is noticed that Zechmeister's definition of chromatography does not include the process of development, which appears to have been Tswett's only new contribution, and further literary researches indicate that the manifold roots of Chromatography must be sought even earlier than the authors had supposed.

TL;DR: In den traditionellen historischen Darstellungen der ersten Anf/inge der Papierchromatographie and der Tfipfeltechnik von RHEINBOLD, FEIGL, ESl, yon uns wird die Ansicht vertreten, dab SCH6NBEIN and GOPPELSRODER seit 186t entwickelten Kapillaranalyse angesehen werden.

TL;DR: The belief that the word ‘chromatography’ was coined by Tswett1 about 1906 is incorrect; it appears to have been widely used, though with a different connotation, for more than a century and a half previously.