George Porter

The Right Honourable
The Lord Porter of Luddenham
OM FRS FRSE
The Right Honourable The Lord Porter of Luddenham OM FRS FRSE
Born	George Porter; 6 December 1920; Stainforth, England
Died	31 August 2002 (aged 81)
Alma mater	University of Leeds (BSc); Emmanuel College, Cambridge; (PhD)
Known for	Flash photolysis
Spouse	Stella Jean Brooke (since 1949)
Awards	Corday-Morgan Prize (1955); FRS (1960); Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1967); 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; Graham Fleming;

George Porter (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist.^[5] He was given the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.

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Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne. Back when he was born, it was on the West Riding of Yorkshire. He studied at Thorne Grammar School and later went to University of Leeds.^[6] He got his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1949 for researching free radicals produced by photochemical means.^[7]

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