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George Porter
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British chemist (1920–2002)
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George Porter was a British chemist, politician, and university teacher. He was born in Stainforth in 1920 and died in Canterbury in 2002. His professional work focused on chemistry, physical chemistry, and chemical kinetics. He received his education at the University of Leeds and Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. His doctoral advisor was Ronald George Wreyford Norrish.
Porter held academic positions at the University of Sheffield, University College London, Imperial College London, and the University of Cambridge. He was a member of the Royal Society, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His awards included the Knight Bachelor title, the Order of Merit, the Faraday Lectureship Prize, and the Corday-Morgan Prize. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry1967
“for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- George
- Family name
- Porter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Stainforth
- Place of death
- Canterbury
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Cambridge
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- honorary doctorate
- Noble title
- Knight Bachelor
- Doctoral advisor
- Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
- Field of work
- chemical kinetics
- Image
- George Porter Nobel.jpg
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- date of birth
- 1920-12-06
- date of death
- 2002-08-31
- Commons category
- George Porter
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- name in native language
- George Porter
- different from
- George Porter
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- George Porter
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS, FRSE (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.
Education and early life
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