Rodney Robert Porter:
Rodney Robert Porter was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth:
October 8, 1917 in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England
Death:
September 7, 1985 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
Claim to Fame:
Porter was an English biochemist who shares the 1972 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Gerald Edelman for their independent determination of the chemical structure of antibodies. They both broke the immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody molecule into smaller pieces and determined the structures of the pieces. They then compiled the smaller structures and determined the complete larger structure.