System upgrade on fri jun 26th 2020 at 5pm et during this period our website will be offline for less than an hour but the e commerce and registration of new users may not be available for up to 4 hours. Porter received a portion of the 1967 nobel prize in chemistry for inventing flash photolysis a technique for studying the spectroscopy and kinetic behavior of short lived species the life and scientific legacy of george porter david philips and james barber eds journal of chemical education. James b life and scientific legacy of george porter the phillips david barber james isbn 9781860946608 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Sir george porter lord porter of luddenham was one of the most highly regarded and well known scientists in britain he was appointed director of the royal institution in 1996 awarded a nobel prize in chemistry in 1967 and was the only director of the royal institution to later become president of the royal society 19881990 porter had a marvellous gift for communicating his infectious