Helen Porter
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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.
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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.
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1899 to 1987 · aged 88
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