Rodney Robert Porter

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.

Rodney Robert Porter (8 October 1917 – 7 September 1985) was a British biochemist.

Born in Newton-le-Willows, St Helens, Lancashire, England, Rodney Robert Porter received his Bachelors of Sciences--with Honours--from the University of Liverpool in 1939 for Biochemistry, going on to receive his Ph.

He worked for the National Institute of Medical Research for eleven years (1949-1960) before joining St. Mary's Hospital Medical School--University of London--and becoming the Pfizer Professor of Immunology.

In 1967 he was appointed Whitley Professor of Biochemistry to Oxford University.

In 1972, Porter shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology with Gerald M.