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Prof Rodney Robert Porter, CH, FRS FRSE HFRCP (8 October 1917 – 6 September 1985) was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Biographical. Rodney Robert Porter born 8 October 1917 at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England. He was educated at the Ashton-in-Makerfield Grammar School taking his Hons.B.Sc. (Biochemistry) in 1939 at the University of Liverpool and his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1948.
Rodney R. Porter. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972. Born: 8 October 1917, Newton-le-Willows, United Kingdom. Died: 6 September 1985, Winchester, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies”
Rodney Robert Porter was a British biochemist who, with Gerald M. Edelman, received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his contribution to the determination of the chemical structure of an antibody. Porter was educated at the University of Liverpool (B.S., 1939) and the University.
Rodney R. Porter was awarded the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with Gerald M. Edelman (AAI '70) for their related but independent work that established the chemical structure of antibodies. Together, Porter and Edelman are recognized as having provided much of the foundation for the developing field of molecular immunology.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972 was awarded jointly to Gerald M. Edelman and Rodney R. Porter "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies"
Rodney Robert Porter. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972 for discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies, shared with Gerald Edelman. Department of Biochemistry PhD student (1946-1948, PhD awarded 1948).
Rodney Porter was an outstandingly successful scientist whose creative activity was unusually sustained. His early years were academically unremarkable and his first distinction, the fellowship of the Royal Society, did not come until the age of 47.
Rodney Robert Porter was a scientist of outstanding ability and great distinction who has been described as the father of modern immuno- chemistry. As a young man he was so astonished by the biolog...
Described by many colleagues as the father of modern immuno-chemistry, Rodney Porter was one of the most outstanding biochemists of his generation. He devoted his whole scientific life to the study of the immune system. In 1972 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, jointly with Gerald M. Edelman.
