Rodney R. Porter (1917-1985)

Awarded the Prize “for the discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies.”

British biochemist. Porter was born on October 8, 1917 at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. He took his B.Sc. at the University of Liverpool in 1939 his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1948. In 1960 he joined St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London University. In 1967, he was appointed Whitley Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Oxford Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. In 1964, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 1964. Porter died on September 6, 1985 near Winchester, Hampshire.