George Porter
George Porter
George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham OM PRSwas a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 February 1791
classical gets good helps music people time
I think music helps people through many means; it helps people just get through the day, ... I know when I am having not so good a time I put on some classical music and it just gets me through.
english-scientist highest honour interests joyous occasion recognised scientist subject
It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow.
help people run
I'm overwhelmed. A lot of people run and hide, but everyone has come to help us.
science kicking taste
Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.
fit good
We feel she will be a real good fit for us here,
english-scientist essence impatient rewarded second spent work
We are rewarded for work the very essence of which is that we were so impatient that we spent only a millionth of a second over an experiment.
english-scientist fortunate nobel patient rewarded three whom
We three chemists here are the most fortunate of Nobel Laureates, many of whom are rewarded after years of patient and painstaking work.