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This volume is dedicated to him by a small representative number of his colleagues, co-workers, and admirers. George Porter's contributions to research in photophysics, photochemistry and photobiology began with his work in the Department of Physical Chemistry, Cambridge, for which in 1967 he was awarded, jointly with R.G.W. Norrish, the Nobel Prize for the development of flash photolysis, without which the study of fast photo processes could not have proceeded. In the University of Sheffield, he advanced this work, and as Firth Professor of Physical Chemistry built up an extremely impressive department. In 1967, he moved to the Royal Institution, as Director, and there, over 21 years, was the leader of and inspiration to a research group, which took the time-scale of 'fast reaction' research from microseconds through nanoseconds to picoseconds. In 1985, he became the President of the Royal Society of London, and felt he could no longer combine this with his role as Director of the Royal Institution. He obtained a part-time post in Imperial College, firstly in Biology, then in Biochemistry, and latterly, in Chemistry where, amongst other things, he presided over the development of
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- Author
- David Phillips
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1010-6030)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Materials Science (Physical Sciences)