Helen Porter

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1899 –

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Who is Helen Porter?

Helen Kemp Porter was a botanist from Imperial College London. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first female professor at Imperial College London. Her studies of polysaccharide metabolism in tobacco plants were groundbreaking; she was one of the first British scientists to use the innovative technologies of chromatography and radioactive tracers.

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Born
Nov 10, 1899
Farnham
Education
  • University of London
Died
May 14, 2024

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on July 23, 2013

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