biography
| name: |
Porter, Rodney Robert
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1917–85)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Liverpool, Merseyside, NW England, UK. He studied there and at Cambridge, worked at the National Institute for Medical Research (1949–60), St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London (1960–7), and became professor at Oxford (1967). His work on antibodies from 1949, together with studies by Gerald Edelman and others, enabled him to propose an overall molecular structure for antibodies. His ideas helped to link the biochemistry of antibodies with immunology, and he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Gerald Edelman in 1972. |
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