Keith R. Porter

Keith Roberts Porter (born June 11, 1912 in Yarmouth , Nova Scotia , † May 2, 1997 ) was a Canadian cell biologist .

Life

Porter was a pioneer of research with the electron microscope in the field of cell biology . For example, he examined the 9 + 2 microtubule structures in the axoneme of cilia . Porter also contributed to the development of other experimental methods, such as cell culture and cell nuclear transfer . The name of the endoplasmic reticulum goes back to him .

Keith Porter was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia and became a citizen of the United States in 1947. He first studied at Acadia University in Wolfville , Nova Scotia and then graduated from Harvard University . In the late 1930s he did research at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research . Porter was 1960/1961 co-founder of the American Society for Cell Biology , of which he was president in 1978, and the " Journal of Cell Biology ". The "Keith R. Porter Endowment for Cell Biology" founded in 1981 sponsors 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 to the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1968 . He retired in 1983 and retired from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and the University of Pennsylvania . The UMBC's “Core Imaging Facility” is dedicated to Porter.

In 1970 Porter received the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University together with Albert Claude and George E. Palade . Porter's colleagues Albert Claude, Christian de Duve and George E. Palade received the 1974 Nobel Prize “for describing the structure and function of organelles in biological cells”, ie for work for which Porter was also known.

Prizes and awards

• 1957: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1964: Gairdner Foundation International Award
• 1964: Passano Award
• 1964: Member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1970: Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
• 1971: Dickson Prize in Science
• 1971: Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
• 1976: National Medal of Science
• 1977: Member of the American Philosophical Society
• 1981: EB Wilson Medal
• 1983: Rosenstiel Award

literature

• Moberg CL: The electron microscope enters the realm of the intact cell . In: J. Med.. . 181, No. 3, March 1995, pp. 831-7. PMID 7869045 . PMC 2191944 (free full text).
• Moberg CL: Keith Porter and the Founding of the Tissue Culture Association . In: In Vitro Cell Dev Biol Anim. . 32, 1996, pp. 663-9. doi : 10.1007 / BF02724051 .
• Satir P: Keith Roberts Porter: 1912-1997 . In: J. Cell Biol. . 138, No. 2, July 1997, pp. 223-4. doi : 10.1083 / jcb.138.2.223 . PMID 9273349 . PMC 2138189 (free full text).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cooper, Geoffrey M .: Ch. 1: Section: Electron Microscopy . In: The Cell - A Molecular Approach , 2nd. Edition, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland MA 2000, ISBN 0-87893-106-6 .
2. ^ Porter KR, Claude A, Fullam EF: A Study of Tissue Culture Cells by Electron Microscopy . In: J Exp Med. . 81, No. 3, 1945, pp. 233-246. doi : 10.1084 / jem.81.3.233 . PMID 19871454 . PMC 2135493 (free full text).
3. ^ Keith R. Porter Lecture Award

Web links

• The Official Site of Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (Engl.)
• Keith R. Porter Papers (1938–1993) at the "University of Colorado at Boulder" (engl.)