George Porter
AskBiography Logo   Latest News  Follow Us on Twitter  Follow Us on Google Buzz  Became Fan - Facebook  Subscribe to RSSRSS   Bookmark and Share

George Porter

Personal information
Birth date6 December 1920
Birth placeStainforth
Death date31 August 2002(age 81)
NationalityBritish
Fieldschemistry
Alma materUniversity of Leeds
Known forflash photolysis
Notable awardsNobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967

     Home | Scientist | George Porter



George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS (6 December 1920 - 31 August 2002) was a British chemist.

Latest News : George Porter : Tweet this RSS

Want to George Porter latest news on your twitter account???   sign in with twitter
George Porter     sign in with twitter   ||  Scientist     sign in with twitter   ||  Science     sign in with twitter
Orient reserves draw and youth team lose - Vitalfootball Tweet this news
Vitalfootball--Summer arrival -George Porter- scored in Leyton Orient reserves 1-1 draw with Brighton & Hove Albion reserves on Tuesday. Young striker Porter scored in the ... - Date : Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:41:25 GMT+00:00
Batti on target for Albion - The Argus.co.uk Tweet this news
The Argus.co.uk--The midfielder's 63rd minute strike from a cross by French defender Luc Matutu cancelled out -George Porter's- solo effort for Orient three minutes earlier ... - Date : Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:56:24 GMT+00:00
PLYMOUTH Albion make four changes to their line-up including a first start for ... - Plymouth Herald Tweet this news
Plymouth Herald--Plymouth Albion: Mark Lee; Fionn McLoughlin, Ben Mercer, Sione Tu'ipulotu, Jonny Coleman, Kieran Hallett, Tom Kessell; -George Porter-, Gareth Evans, ... - Date : Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:08:29 GMT+00:00
Rooks lose their first game under O'Shea - Sussex Express Tweet this news
Sussex Express---...- Lynvall Duncan and Connor Essam played well in the heart of Stortford's defence against the lively visiting strike duo of Paul Olima and -George Porter-. ... - Date : Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:08:47 GMT+00:00
Faculty plays a double set - Acorn Tweet this news
Acorn--One day, I'm in the science building and I'm walking in the hall and I do a double-take because I see a picture of -George Porter- Jr. on someone's door. ... - Date : Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:51:50 GMT+00:00
Aging killer may get reprieve from death row - Florida Today Tweet this news
Florida Today--VIERA � Prosecutors won't seek to send convicted killer -George Porter-, 78 years old and ailing, ... - Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:03:05 GMT+00:00
George delighted with return to Cray Wanderers - Guardian Series Tweet this news
Guardian Series--NEW Leyton Orient signing -George Porter- made his first appearance for the O's at the home of his former club Cray last night, and the young forward ... - Date : Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:24:49 GMT+00:00
Jon Fishman and Mike Gordon Join 7 Walkers - jambands.com Tweet this news
jambands.com--Jon Fishman swapped places with drummer Bill Kreutzmann for “Deal” and “Morning Dew” while Mike Gordon took over for -George Porter- Jr. on “Going Down The ... - Date : Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:23:04 GMT+00:00
ORIENT: First game next week. Tell us what you think - Guardian Series Tweet this news
Guardian Series--Maybe you want a new style of play by the O's which features more wing play, as Dean Cox and -George Porter- pump cross after cross into the danger-zone. ... - Date : Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:38:57 GMT+00:00
Clearing the Desk: Porter, Simon, Mixtapes and More - OffBeat Magazine Tweet this news
OffBeat Magazine---Word has been floating around about -George Porter-, Jr.'s legal issues with his former management, Highsteppin' Productions. Neither Porter nor his lawyer ... - Date : Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:36:28 GMT+00:00

Cultural offices
Preceded by
William Lawrence Bragg
Director of the Royal Institution
1966-1986
Succeeded by
John Meurig Thomas
Academic offices
Preceded by
Sir Alan Hodgkin
Chancellor of the University of Leicester
1984-1995
Succeeded by
Sir Michael Atiyah


Nobel Laureates in Chemistry

Edwin McMillan / Glenn T. Seaborg (1951) * Archer Martin / Richard Synge (1952) * Hermann Staudinger (1953) * Linus Pauling (1954) * Vincent du Vigneaud (1955) * Cyril Hinshelwood / Nikolay Semyonov (1956) * Alexander Todd (1957) * Frederick Sanger (1958) * Jaroslav Heyrovský (1959) * Willard Libby (1960) * Melvin Calvin (1961) * Max Perutz / John Kendrew (1962) * Karl Ziegler / Giulio Natta (1963) * Dorothy Hodgkin (1964) * Robert Woodward (1965) * Robert S. Mulliken (1966) * Manfred Eigen / Ronald Norrish / George Porter (1967) * Lars Onsager (1968) * Derek Barton / Odd Hassel (1969) * Luis Federico Leloir (1970) * Gerhard Herzberg (1971) * Christian B. Anfinsen / Stanford Moore / William Stein (1972) * E.O.Fischer / Geoffrey Wilkinson (1973) * Paul Flory (1974) * John Cornforth / Vladimir Prelog (1975)

Presidents of the Royal Society

William Huggins (1900) * John Strutt (1905) * Archibald Geikie (1908) * William Crookes (1913) * Joseph John Thomson (1915) * Charles Scott Sherrington (1920) * Ernest Rutherford (1925) * Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1930) * William Henry Bragg (1935) * Henry Hallett Dale (1940) * Robert Robinson (1945) * Edgar Adrian (1950) * Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1955) * Howard Florey (1960) * Patrick Blackett (1965) * Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1970) * Alexander R. Todd (1975) * Andrew Huxley (1980) * George Porter (1985) * Michael Atiyah (1990) * Aaron Klug (1995)
Robert May (2000) * Martin Rees (2005)



Privacy | Sitemap