Awards & Winners

George Porter

Date of Birth 06-December-1920
Place of Birth Stainforth
(United Kingdom, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Chemist
George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, OM, FRS was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.

Awards by George Porter

Check all the awards nominated and won by George Porter.

1992


Copley Medal
(In recognition of his contributions to fundamental understanding of fast photochemical and photophysical processes and their role in chemistry and biology.)

1978


Rumford Medal
(In recognition of his distinguished studies of very fast chemical reactions by flash photolysis.)

1967


Nobel Prize in Chemistry
(for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy)