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Rodney Robert Porter, FRS (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 in 1939
for Biochemistry,
going on to receive his Ph.D. degree in the field from the
University of Cambridge in
1948.
He worked for the National Institute of Medical Research for
eleven years (1949-1960) before joining St. Mary's
Hospital Medical School--Imperial College London--and
becoming the Pfizer Professor of Immunology.
In 1967 he was appointed Whitley Professor of Biochemistry to Oxford University.
In 1972, Porter shared the Nobel Prize
for Medicine or Physiology with Gerald M. Edelman
for determining the exact chemical structure of an antibody. Using an enzyme called papain, he broke the blood's immunoglobin into pieces, making them
easier to study. He also looked into how the blood's immunoglobins
react with cellular surfaces.
He died in a road accident near Winchester, Hampshire and is survived by his wife and
five children.
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