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About George Porter

George Hornidge Porter (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist, who was awarded, together with Manfred Eigen and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish the 1967 Nobel Chemistry Prize "for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy".

Born: December 6th, 1920

Died: August 31st, 2002

Categories: Chemists, English people, Nobel Prize winners, 2000s deaths

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Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

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