“…Wieland and Fischer used filter paper strips saturated with an acetate buffer as a medium for electrophoresis, while studying the separation of wimple amino acids and of the complexes formed when various amino acids react with cupric ion (14)-By incorporating radioactive copper into the complexes, cutting the strips into narrow bands and determining their radioactivity, they explored the possibility of using this method as a quantitative technique (15). To maintain the strips at constant temperature and lessen the effects of heating, Cremer and Tiselius used filter paper strips between glass plates and immersed in a bath of chlorobenzene (16).…”