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Rodney Robert Porter

1917 - 1985

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Rodney Robert Porter (8 October 1917 – 6 September 1985) was a British biochemist and Nobel laureate. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rodney Robert Porter is the 55th most popular chemist (up from 222nd in 2019), the 276th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 888th in 2019) and the 10th most popular British Chemist.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Rodney Robert Porter ranks 55 out of 602. Before him are Arthur Harden, Adolf Butenandt, Archer Martin, Otto Diels, Henry Louis Le Chatelier, and Walther Nernst. After him are Robert Bunsen, Justus von Liebig, Frederick Soddy, Kurt Alder, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., and Francis William Aston.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Rodney Robert Porter ranks 8. Before him are John F. Kennedy, Ferdinand Marcos, Park Chung-hee, Heinrich Böll, John Fenn, and Arthur C. Clarke. After him are Ilya Prigogine, Frederica of Hanover, James Rainwater, Christian de Duve, Ella Fitzgerald, and Marsha Hunt. Among people deceased in 1985, Rodney Robert Porter ranks 9. Before him are Konstantin Chernenko, Yul Brynner, Heinrich Böll, Charles Francis Richter, Macfarlane Burnet, and Orson Welles. After him are Italo Calvino, Fernand Braudel, Carl Schmitt, Jean Dubuffet, László Bíró, and Simone Signoret.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Rodney Robert Porter ranks 276 out of 8,785. Before him are Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912), William Henry Bragg (1862), Jane Birkin (1946), William Adams (1564), Robert the Bruce (1274), and Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire (1477). After him are Owain Glyndŵr (1359), Gladwyn Jebb (1900), John Venn (1834), George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (1504), Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth (1757), and Frederick Soddy (1877).

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Among CHEMISTS In United Kingdom

Among chemists born in United Kingdom, Rodney Robert Porter ranks 10. Before him are Alexander R. Todd (1907), Robert Robinson (1886), Humphry Davy (1778), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), Arthur Harden (1865), and Archer Martin (1910). After him are Frederick Soddy (1877), Francis William Aston (1877), Norman Haworth (1883), Henry Hallett Dale (1875), Frederick Sanger (1918), and Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914).

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