Rodney Porter was a biochemist who spent most of his professional life investigating the chemical structure and functioning of antibodies, a class of proteins which are also called immunoglobulins. Since 1890 scientists had known that antibodies are...

Rodney Porter was a biochemist who spent most of his professional life investigating the chemical structure and functioning of antibodies, a class of proteins which are also called immunoglobulins. Since 1890, scientists had known that antibodies are...

Rodney Robert Porter was born October 8, 1917, in Newton-le-Willows, near Liverpool in Lancashire, England. His mother was Isobel Reese Porter and his father, Joseph L. Porter, was a railroad clerk. He attended Liverpool University, where he earned a...

1917-1985 British biochemist who received the 1972 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, which he shared with Gerald Edelman, for research concerning the chemical structure of antibodies. Antibodies (or immunoglobulins) are proteins in the blood that...

Rodney Robert Porter (8 October 1917 – 7 September 1985) was an English biochemist. Born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England, Rodney Robert Porter received his Bachelors of Sciences--with Honours--from the University of Liverpool...

11 JUNE 1912 * 2 MAY 1997 KEITH ROBERTS PORTER was a true scientific pioneer and a key member of a small group of scientists who laid the foundations for the field of cell biology in the 1940s and 1950s. Porter was born...

Portland Press Herald (Maine) 09-04-2001 ROBERT C. PORTER, 78 Portland Press Herald (Maine) Tuesday, September 4, 2001 Edition: FINAL Section: Local & State Page: 7B SCARBOROUGH-- Robert C. Porter, 78, of Downeast Lane died Sept. 1, 2001, in a Westbrook nursing...