The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 5th, 2002
George Porter, 81 Nobel chemist
Thursday, September 5, 2002
London -- George Porter, who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize for chemistry for his work on light-driven chemical reactions, died Saturday at age 81.
Porter, who shared the chemistry prize with his mentor, R.G.W. Norrish of Cambridge University, and Manfred Eigen of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, went to Cambridge in 1945 as a postgraduate research student with Norrish, studying the production of free radicals in gaseous photochemical reactions.
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