Rodney Robert Porter
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Rodney Robert Porter was an English biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work on the structure of antibodies, the proteins our immune system uses to fight disease. His discoveries in the 1950s and 1960s helped scientists understand how antibodies work at the molecular level, which laid the foundation for modern immunology and medical treatments.
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- Born
- 1917-10-08
- Died
- 1985-09-06
- Works
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- Chemical aspects of immunology
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5 total works indexed
- Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density
· 1988 · cited 94,860x
- Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation
· 2011 · cited 55,855x
- Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support
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Rodney Robert Porter (8 October 1917 – 6 September 1985) was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate.
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1917 births1985 deaths20th-century English chemistsAcademics of Imperial College LondonAlumni of the University of LiverpoolBritish Army personnel of World War IIBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyEnglish biochemistsEnglish Nobel laureatesEnglish physiologistsFellows of Trinity College, OxfordForeign associates of the National Academy of Sciences