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About Helen Porter
Helen Kemp Porter was a British botanist from Imperial College London. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first woman to be appointed as a professor at Imperial College London. Her studies of polysaccharide metabolism in tobacco plants were groundbreaking; she was one of the first British scientists to use the innovative technologies of chromatography and radioactive tracers.
Everything about Helen Porter →- Occupation
- botanist, university teacher, biochemist, science writer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- November 10, 1899
- Died
- December 7, 1987