Helen Porter
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British botanist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Prof Helen Kemp Porter later Mrs Huggett FRS FRSE was a British botanist from Imperial College London. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first female 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.
Helen Porter's Published Works
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- Translocation of 14Carbon in Tobacco following Assimilation of 14Carbon Dioxide by a Single Leaf (1959) (85)
- Replacement of oxidation by light as the energy source for glucose metabolism in tobacco leaf (1959) (61)
- Metabolism of Radioactive Sugars by Tobacco leaf Disks (1955) (58)
- Physiological Studies in Plant Nutrition: XV. Assimilation of Carbon by the Ear of Barley and its Relation to the Accumulation of Dry Matter in the Grain (1950) (57)
- INTRACELLULAR LOCALISATION OF ENZYMES ASSOCIATED WITH SUCROSE SYNTHESIS IN LEAVES. (1965) (56)
- Utilization of Nitrogen and its Compounds by Plants. (1960) (28)
- Synthesis and Dissolution of Starch labelled with 14Carbon in Tobacco Leaf Tissue (1959) (22)
- Preparation of Radioactive Starch, Glucose and Fructose from C14O2 (1952) (21)
- The Inhibition of α-Amylase and Phosphatase Contaminants of Potato Phosphorylase Preparations (1953) (14)
- Translocation from Leaves of Rye (1960) (11)
- Some Effects of Ethanol Extracts of Potatoes on the Activity of a Phosphorylase Preparation. (1954) (10)
- Metabolism of glucose carbon atoms by tobacco leaf disks. (1961) (9)
- Some effects of 2, 4-dinitrophenol on the metabolism of tobacco leaf disks. (1956) (8)
- Metabolism of maltose labelled with 14C in the reducing glucose moiety, by tobacco leaf disks. (1958) (7)
- Frederick Gugenheim Gregory, 1893-1961 (1963) (0)
- Meirion Thomas, 28 December 1894 - 5 April 1977 (1978) (0)
- Francis John Richards, 1901-1965 (1966) (0)
- Prof. F. G. Gregory, F.R.S. (1962) (0)
- Prof. L. H. May (1965) (0)
- A discussion on photosynthesis - Introduction (1963) (0)
- DISPOSAL TESTS FOR AIR-2A 'GENIE' ROCKET MOTORS (1968) (0)
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