Portrait of Helen Kemp Porter
Date
1959
Sitter
Helen Kemp Porter (1899 - 1987, British) , Plant physiologist
Creator - Organisation
Sport and General Press Agency Ltd, Photographer
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 207mm
width (print): 137mm
width (print): 137mm
Subject
Description
Half-length portrait of Helen Kemp Porter, seated at a desk, facing forward, holding pen in right hand over papers. Taken in the laboratory at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, Kensington.
Inscribed on the back ‘SPORT & GENERAL PRESS AGENCY, LIMITED, 2 & 3 GOUGH SQUARE, FLEET STREET, LONDON E.C.4. FLEET STREET 1161. COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH BY THE SPORT AND GENERAL PRESS AGENCY LTD. 2&3. GOUGH SQUARE, FLEET STREET E.C.4. THIS PHOTOGRAPH MUST NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM OR DISPLAYED COMMERCIALLY WITHOUT [OUR OFFICIAL PERMISSION?]. Inscribed on paper affixed to back ‘DR HELEN PORTER, 57 YEAR OLD WIDOW HAS BECOME THE FIRST WOMAN TO HOLD A CHAIR AT THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. SHE IS THE NEW PROFESSOR OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. DR PORTER BECAME A POST-GRADUATE STUDENT IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AT THE COLLEGE, THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE BOTANY DEPARTMENT AS RESEARCH ASSISTANT. SHE DID SO THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION EQUIPPED HER WITH A £6,000 LABORATORY FOR THE STUDY OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND COLD-STORE PROBLEMS. 338297 Dr Helen Porter photographed in the laboratory at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, Kensington. S & G 14/1/59 M.L.’
Helen Kemp Porter (1899-1987) was a plant physiologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
Inscribed on the back ‘SPORT & GENERAL PRESS AGENCY, LIMITED, 2 & 3 GOUGH SQUARE, FLEET STREET, LONDON E.C.4. FLEET STREET 1161. COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH BY THE SPORT AND GENERAL PRESS AGENCY LTD. 2&3. GOUGH SQUARE, FLEET STREET E.C.4. THIS PHOTOGRAPH MUST NOT BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM OR DISPLAYED COMMERCIALLY WITHOUT [OUR OFFICIAL PERMISSION?]. Inscribed on paper affixed to back ‘DR HELEN PORTER, 57 YEAR OLD WIDOW HAS BECOME THE FIRST WOMAN TO HOLD A CHAIR AT THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. SHE IS THE NEW PROFESSOR OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. DR PORTER BECAME A POST-GRADUATE STUDENT IN ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AT THE COLLEGE, THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE BOTANY DEPARTMENT AS RESEARCH ASSISTANT. SHE DID SO THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION EQUIPPED HER WITH A £6,000 LABORATORY FOR THE STUDY OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND COLD-STORE PROBLEMS. 338297 Dr Helen Porter photographed in the laboratory at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, Kensington. S & G 14/1/59 M.L.’
Helen Kemp Porter (1899-1987) was a plant physiologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.
Object history
From a collection of photographs of Arthur St George Joseph McCarthy Huggett and Helen Kemp Porter, presented to the Royal Society for duplication by Jean Adams in June 2016.
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