CAR CRASH KILLS NOBEL WINNER RODNEY PORTER
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Date: Tuesday, September 10, 1985
Page: 85
Section: OBITUARY
Professor Rodney Robert Porter, 67, of Oxford University, a winner of the
1972 Nobel Prize for Medicine, was killed Saturday in a four-car accident in
Winchester, England, according to English police reports.
Mr. Porter, a biochemist, won the prize jointly with Gerald Maurice
Edelman of Rockefeller University in New York City. Their separate research
had revealed ways that the human body detects alien living chemical cells.
The two scientists described the chemical, immune globulin, that detecting
antibodies. It is a major component of gamma globulin, the blood part that
contains chemicals that defend against germs. Using the enzyme papain, which
comes from the tropical fruit pawpaw to split the antibody molecule, Mr.
Porter performed his research on antibodies at St. Mary's Hospital Medical
School, which is associated with London University where he had been Pfizer
professor of immunology.
Scientists have credited Mr. Porter and Dr. Edelman with changing the way
disease is combated through immunization and vaccination.
He was former Whitley professor of biochemistry at Oxford University.
After grammar school in Ashton-in Makerfield, near Liverpool, he attended
Liverpool and Cambridge universities, and he was associated with the National
Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, England, from 1949 to 1960.
He leaves his wife, Julia Frances (New); two sons, Nigel and Tim Porter;
and three daughters, Susan, Ruth and Helen.
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