Helen Porter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Helen Porter

British botanist (1899-1987)

Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1899

Place of Birth: Farnham, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 07-Dec-1987

Profession: university teacher, botanist, biochemist, science writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Prof Helen Kemp Porter later Mrs Huggett FRS FRSE (10 November 1899 – 7 December 1987) 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.