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Sir George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham
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Born December 6, 1920 • England
Died August 31, 2002 (aged 81) • Canterbury • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1992) • Nobel Prize (1967)
Subjects Of Study chemical reaction • flash photolysis • reaction mechanism • reaction rate
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
British chemist
Manfred Eigen
German physicist
Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
British chemist
Sanger, Frederick
Frederick Sanger
British biochemist
Dorothy Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin
English chemist
Wilhelm Ostwald.
Wilhelm Ostwald
German chemist
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
British physicist
Max Ferdinand Perutz (left) and John Cowdery Kendrew, 1962.
Max Ferdinand Perutz
British biochemist
Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov
Russian chemist
Herschbach, Dudley R.
Dudley R. Herschbach
American chemist and educator
Yuan T. Lee
Taiwanese-American chemist
John C. Polanyi
Canadian chemist and educator
R.B. Woodward, 1966.
Robert Burns Woodward
American chemist
Sir Derek H.R. Barton.
Sir Derek H.R. Barton
British chemist
Herbert Charles Brown
American chemist
Levitt, Michael
Michael Levitt
American-British-Israeli chemist
Sir Harold W. Kroto
British chemist
Sir John A. Pople
British mathematician and chemist
Klug, Aaron
Aaron Klug
Lithuanian-born British chemist
Sir John Cornforth
Australian-born British chemist

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