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George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
,
OM
,
Kt
,
PRS
,
FRSE
(6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a
British
chemist
. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in 1967. Porter was born in
Stainforth
, near
Thorne, South Yorkshire
. He was educated at
Thorne Grammar School
,
[5]
then won a scholarship to the
University of Leeds
and gained his
first degree
in
chemistry
. During his degree, Porter was taught by
Meredith Gwynne Evans
, who he later said was the most brilliant chemist he had ever met. He was awarded a
PhD
from the
University of Cambridge
in 1949 for research investigating
free radicals
produced by
photochemical means
.
Porter served in the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
during the
Second World War
. Porter then went on to do research at the
University of Cambridge
supervised by
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
where he began the work that ultimately led to them becoming
Nobel Laureates
. His original research in developing the technique of
flash photolysis
to obtain information on short-lived molecular species provided the first evidence of free
radicals
. His later research utilised the technique to study the detailed aspects of the
light-dependent reactions
of
photosynthesis
, with particular regard to possible applications to a
hydrogen economy
, of which he was a strong advocate. He was Assistant Director of the
British Rayon Research Association
from 1953–4, where he studied the
phototendering
of dyed cellulose fabrics in sunlight.
Porter became a professor in the Chemistry department at the
University of Sheffield
in 1954–55. It was here he started his work on flash photolysis with equipment designed and made in the departmental workshop. During this tenure he also took part in a television programme describing his work. This was in the "Eye on Research" series. Porter became
Fullerian Professor of Chemistry
and Director of the
Royal Institution
in 1966. During his directorship of the Royal Institution, Porter was instrumental in the setting up of Applied Photophysics, a company created to supply instrumentation based on his group's work. He was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
in 1967 along with
Manfred Eigen
and
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
. In the same year he became a visiting professor at
University College London
.
Porter was a major contributor to the
Public Understanding of science
. He became president of the
British Association
in 1985 and was the founding Chair of the
Committee on the Public Understanding of Science
(COPUS). He gave the
Romanes Lecture
, entitled "Science and the human purpose", at the
University of Oxford
in 1978; and in 1988 he gave the
Dimbleby Lecture
, "Knowledge itself is power." From 1990 to 1993 he gave the
Gresham lectures
in astronomy.