Rodney Porter

PROFESSOR RODNEY ROBERT PORTER d1985. British biochemist and nobel laureate who worked for the National Institute for Medical Research for eleven years (1949–1960) before joining St. Mary's Hospital Medical School Imperial College London and becoming the Pfizer Professor of Immunology. In 1967 he was appointed Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Trinity College Oxford. He died aged 67 on September 6th 1985