Rodney Porter

Professor
Rodney Porter
CH FRS FRSE HonFRCP
Born
Rodney Robert Porter

(1917-10-08)8 October 1917
Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England
Died6 September 1985(1985-09-06) (aged 67)
Alma mater
Known forChemical structure of antibodies
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
Institutions
ThesisThe free amino groups of proteins (1948)
Doctoral advisorFrederick Sanger[2]

Rodney Robert Porter (8 October 1917 – 6 September 1985) was a British biochemist[3][4] and Nobel laureate.[5][6][7]

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  2. ^ "Rodney Porter Memorial Lectures". Oxford: University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Schlesinger, M. (1973). "The 1972 Nobel prize for medicine, G.M. Adelman and R.R. Porter". Harefuah. 84 (1): 41. PMID 4571222.
  7. ^ Harboe, M. (1972). "Nobel prize for immunoglobulin research". Tidsskrift for den Norske Laegeforening. 92 (34): 2363–2365. PMID 4568120.