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English
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Arthur St George Huggett (1952-1968)
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Bedford College, Imperial College London, Royal Holloway, University of London, University of London
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♏ Scorpio
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猪 Pig
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English < Latin < Ancient Greek (Ἑλένη)
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Helen Porter: British botanist (1899-1987).
Born in Farnham (died at age 88).
Recipient of the Fellow of the Royal Society.
Studied at Bedford College.
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Biography
Helen Kemp Porter 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.
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