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Keith R. Porter (1912-1997) was a Canadian-American cell biologist who pioneered electron microscopy of cells and coined many terms for cellular structures. He received several awards and honors, including the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize and the National Medal of Science.
Learn about Keith Roberts Porter, a Canadian-born American who used electron microscopy to study cell structure and organization. He discovered the endoplasmic reticulum and microtubules, and wrote a textbook on fine structure of cells and tissues.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 1, 1997 · This article pays tribute to Keith R. Porter, a pioneer of cell biology who made the first electron micrograph of a cell in 1945. It also reviews his contributions to the study of cell structure, organelles and movement, and his influence on the field.
- Peter Satir
- 1997
Jun 19, 1997 · Keith Porter is one such name. Porter, who died on 2 May at a retirement home in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, aged 84, was one of the founding fathers of modern cell biology.
- Manfred Schliwa
- 1997
Jul 7, 1997 · K eith Roberts Porter died on May 2, 1997, just over a month short of his 85th birthday. He had the perspicacity, good fortune, and patience to take advantage of the fast moving frontier of analytical biology after the Second World War to provide many of the techniques and experimental approaches that established the new field of biomedical ...
- Peter Satir
- 10.1083/jcb.138.2.223
- 1997
- J Cell Biol. 1997 Jul 28; 138(2): 223-224.
May 6, 1997 · Dr Keith R Porter, biologist who made first photographs of tissue cells with aid of electron microscope and thus helped found modern field of cell biology, died on May 2 at age 84; photo (M)
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Keith Roberts Porter was awarded the National Medal of Science for fundamental contributions to the elucidation of the fine structure of cells by electron microscopy, which has inaugurated a new era of cell biology integrating structure and function into a comprehensive picture of the life of cells.
