Rodney Robert Porter

Rodney Porter
Rodney Porter
Born	Rodney Robert Porter; 8 October 1917; Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England
Died	6 September 1985 (aged 67)
Alma mater	University of Liverpool (BSc); University of Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	Chemical structure of antibodies
Awards	FRS (1964); Gairdner Foundation International Award (1966); Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1972); Royal Medal (1973); Copley Medal (1983);
	Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	National Institute for Medical Research; Imperial College London; University of Oxford;
Thesis	The free amino groups of proteins (1948)
Doctoral advisor	Frederick Sanger

Prof Rodney Robert Porter, CH, FRS^[1] FRSE HFRCP (8 October 1917 – 6 September 1985) was a British biochemist^[3]^[4] and Nobel laureate.^[5]^[6]^[7]

^ ^a ^b Perry, S. V. (1987). "Rodney Robert Porter. 8 October 1917-6 September 1985". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 33: 445–89. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1987.0017. JSTOR 769960. PMID 11621436.
^ "Rodney Porter Memorial Lectures". Oxford: University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015.
^ Johnstone, A. P.; Kerr, M. A.; Turner, M. W. (1985). "Rodney Robert Porter (1917–1985)". Journal of Immunological Methods. 85 (1): 1–4. Bibcode:1985Natur.317..383S. doi:10.1016/0022-1759(85)90268-6. PMID 3908556.
^ Steiner, L. A. (1985). "Rodney Robert Porter (1917–1985)". Nature. 317 (6036): 383. Bibcode:1985Natur.317..383S. doi:10.1038/317383a0. PMID 3900741. S2CID 4334421.
^ Raju, T. N. (1999). "The Nobel chronicles. 1972: Gerald M Edelman (b 1929) and Rodney R Porter (1917-85)". Lancet. 354 (9183): 1040. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)76658-7. PMID 10501404. S2CID 54380536.
^ Schlesinger, M. (1973). "The 1972 Nobel prize for medicine, G.M. Adelman and R.R. Porter". Harefuah. 84 (1): 41. PMID 4571222.
^ Harboe, M. (1972). "Nobel prize for immunoglobulin research". Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening. 92 (34): 2363–2365. PMID 4568120.

Rodney Porter

Born	Rodney Robert Porter (1917-10-08)8 October 1917 Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England
Died	6 September 1985(1985-09-06) (aged 67)
Alma mater	University of Liverpool (BSc) University of Cambridge (PhD)
Known for	Chemical structure of antibodies
Awards	FRS (1964)^[1] Gairdner Foundation International Award (1966) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1972) Royal Medal (1973) Copley Medal (1983)
Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry
Institutions	National Institute for Medical Research Imperial College London University of Oxford
Thesis	The free amino groups of proteins (1948)
Doctoral advisor	Frederick Sanger^[2]