Keith R. Porter
Keith Roberts Porter ( born June 11, 1912 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; † 2 May 1997) was a Canadian cell biologist.
Life
Porter was a pioneer of research with the electron in the field of cell biology. He examined, for example, the 9 2 microtubule structures in the axoneme of cilia. Porter also contributed to the development of other experimental methods, as for cell culture and cell nuclear transfer. On him the designation of the endoplasmic reticulum is reduced.
Keith Porter was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and in 1947, citizens of the United States. He first studied at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and then graduated from Harvard University. In the late 1930s, he conducted research at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Porter was co-founder of the American Society for Cell Biology and the "Journal of Cell Biology". The " Keith R. Porter Endowment for Cell Biology", founded in 1981 promotes a " Keith R. Porter Lecture " at the annual conference of the "American Society for Cell Biology".
Porter went to Harvard University in 1961 and then in 1968 to the University of Colorado in Boulder. He became professor emeritus in 1983 and was still working emeritus at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County ( UMBC ) and the University of Pennsylvania. The " Core Imaging Facility " UMBC is dedicated to Porter.
1970 Porter got together with Albert Claude and George E. Palade the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University. Was Porter's colleague Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade received the 1974 Nobel Prize "for the description of the structure and function of organelles in biological cells ", ie for work, for which Porter known.