The modern era of CCC began with the development by Dr. Yoichiro Ito of the planetary centrifuge which was first introduced in 1966 as a closed helical tube which was rotated on a "planetary" axis as is turned on a "sun" axis [REF].
By 1982 the technology was sufficiently advanced for the technique to be called "high-speed" countercurrent chromatography (HSCCC) [REF].