For other people named George Porter, see George Porter (disambiguation). For other people with the title of Lord Porter, see Lord Porter (disambiguation).
The Right Honourable
The Lord Porter of Luddenham
OM FRS FRSE
Born
George Porter
(1920-12-06)6 December 1920
Stainforth, England
Died
31 August 2002(2002-08-31) (aged 81)
Alma mater
University of Leeds (BSc)
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
(PhD)
Known for
Flash photolysis
Spouse
Stella Jean Brooke (since 1949)[4]
Awards
Corday-Morgan Prize (1955)
FRS (1960)[1]
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1967)[2]
Davy Medal (1971)
Kalinga Prize (1976)
Rumford Medal (1978)
Faraday Lectureship Prize (1980)
Order of Merit (1989)
Michael Faraday Prize (1991)
Copley Medal (1992)
Scientific career
Fields
Chemistry
Institutions
University of Sheffield
University College London
University of Leicester
Royal Institution
Thesis
The study of free radicals produced by photochemical means(1949)
Doctoral advisor
Ronald Norrish
Doctoral students
James Robert Durrant[3]
Graham Fleming
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS, FRSE (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist.[5] He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
^Cite error: The named reference frs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Weisskopf, V. F. (1967). "Nobel Prizes: Four Named for International Award". Science. 158 (3802): 745–748. Bibcode:1967Sci...158..745W. doi:10.1126/science.158.3802.745. PMID 4860395.
^Durrant, James Robert (1991). Transient absorption spectroscopy of photosystem two. spiral.imperial.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Imperial College London. hdl:10044/1/11455. OCLC 855696059. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.573962.
^"The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1967".
^Phillips, David (2002). "Obituary: George Porter (1920–2002)". Nature. 419 (6907): 578. Bibcode:2002Natur.419..578P. doi:10.1038/419578a. PMID 12374966. S2CID 30532134.
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