# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/helen-porter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:26:51.819Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/helen-porter"
name: "Helen Porter"
slug: "helen-porter"
description: "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."
tagline: "British botanist (1899-1987)"
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gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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birthDate: "1899-11-10"
deathDate: "1987-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump