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George Porter

Age: 81

British scientist who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Manfred Eigen and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish for their studies of “extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing the equilibrium by means of very short pulses of energy.”

Died: Aug. 31, 2002

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