George Porter

Prize: Nobel Prize in Chemistry — 1967

for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy

Together with: Manfred Eigen , Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

educated at: University of Leeds

academic degree: bachelor's degree

Trinity Academy
Emmanuel College
University of Cambridge
member of: National Academy of Sciences

start time: 1974

Japan Academy

start time: 11/12/1986

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

start time: 9/28/1987

Royal Society of London

start time: 3/24/1960

Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Indian National Science Academy
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Philosophical Society
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Russian Academy of Sciences
position held: President of the Royal Society

start time: 1985
end time: 1990

member of the House of Lords

start time: 7/16/1990
end time: 8/31/2002
employer: University of Cambridge
Imperial College London
University College London
University of Sheffield
doctoral student: James Durrant
field of work: physical chemistry
chemistry
chemical kinetics
occupation: politician
chemist
university teacher

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