George Porter
George Porter
George Hornidge Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham OM PRSwas a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 February 1791
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I wanted to stay, but my granddaughter convinced me Sunday morning that we should leave, ... She was sitting in the gazebo and she said, 'Grandpa, when are we going to leave?' She doesn't usually scare that easy.
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Science and Literature are splendid, and it is really to science and literature themselves that this distinguished company pays its homage.
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We feel she will be a real good fit for us here,
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I think music helps people through many means; it helps people just get through the day, ... I know when I am having not so good a time I put on some classical music and it just gets me through.
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We three chemists here are the most fortunate of Nobel Laureates, many of whom are rewarded after years of patient and painstaking work.
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When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
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I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.
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It is a joyous occasion for a scientist when the subject which interests him most is recognised by the highest honour that the world can bestow.
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We are rewarded for work the very essence of which is that we were so impatient that we spent only a millionth of a second over an experiment.
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When I get away from home for too long I start to get crazy, so I need to get back, ... We have to get back just to get our feet in the mud, in that crawfish juice, or something.
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To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new experiments. At least, in the field of fast reactions, the experiments do not take very long to perform.
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It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.
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Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
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Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.