Porter, George

Porter, George. (1920-2002). An English chemist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1967 with Eigen and Norrish. His research concerned fast chemical reactions and the chemistry of photosynthesis. He was educated at Cambridge University and taught there before going on to other posts. 

Porter, George, Baron (1920-2001) British physical chemist. In collaboration with Ronald NORRISH, Porter developed the technique of flash photolysis for investigating fast chemical reactions, starting in the late 1940s. He shared the 1967 Nobel Prize for chemistry with Norrish and Manfred EIGEN. 

Grant, Balaram Gupta, Alice Ku, Gao Liang, Henry Lin, Christine Lui, Chuck McFarland, Ripu Malhotra, Y. K. Mo, Dick Porter, Surya Prakash (who later in Los Angeles became my close colleague and a wonderful friend, see Chapter 8), George Salem, Jacob Shen, John Staral, Jim Svoboda, Paul Szilagyi, and John Welch. 

Donne, John.The sermons of John Donne. Edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Porter. Edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Porter. Berkeley, Los Angeles Univ of California P, 1953-1962. 10 vols... 

Cantrell, A., Land, E.J., and Truscott, T.G. 2006. Pulsed radiation studies of xanthophylls. In The Life and Scientific Legacy of George Porter, eds. D. Phillips and J. Barber, pp. 438-447. London Imperial College Press. 

The term matrix isolation was coined by George Pimentel who pioneered this field together with George Porter. Pimentel intended this term to refer to a method whereby a substrate is mixed with a large exess of an (unsually unreactive) host gas and is condensed on a surface that is sufficiently cold to assure rapid solidification of the material. In this way, one ends up with a sample where (ideally) each substrate molecule is immobilized in a cavity surrounded by one or more layers of inert material and is thus isolated from the other substrate molecules in a matrix of the host gas. 

To Professor Lord George Porter, OM, FRS with gratitude for his teaching and scientific collaboration. 

In 1963, the first volume of Advances in Photochemistry appeared. It was founded by W. Albert Noyes, Jr., along with George Hairanond and James N. Pitts, Jr. Therefore, it is fitting that we dedicate the rebirth of this series, which was discontinued temporarily after Volume 12 appeared in 1980, to his memory. Many of the review articles that have appeared in earlier issues of Advances in Photochemistry were written by his former graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. These include R. Srinivasan, Derrick Hoare, Hideo Okabe, Jacques LeMaire, Israel Unger, Julian Heicklen, David Phillips, and Gerald Porter. 

Larcher D, Mudalige C, George AE, Porter V, Gharghouri M, Dahn JR. Si-containing disordered carbons prepared by pyrolysis of pitch/polysilane blends effect of oxygen and sulfur. Solid State Ionics 1999 122 71-83. 

Prof. Sir George Porter The Royal Society 6 Carlton House Terrace London SW1 UK... 

Ultrafast techniques have really come into their own since the development over the past decade of reliable, relatively inexpensive femtosecond lasers, but in the 1980 s, ultrafast still meant picoseconds, and the chosen paper typifies work in this time-domain. The whole subject of course owes its inspiration to George Porter, who with Norrish pioneered flash photolysis, first in the milli-, then micro-, and ultimately nano- and picosecond time-domains. 

Zewail acknowledged early on that he was inspired to work in the dynamics area by amongst others, George Porter s development of fast reaction techniques, viz. Flash Photolysis which is reported elsewhere in this volume. In the early experiments outlined in the present paper, three detection techniques were employed time-correlated single photon counting, with 30-50 ps time resolution streak camera detection of fluorescence, with 10 ps resolution, and multiphoton ionisation with resolution determined by the pulse width of the laser, 1 or 15 ps. 

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