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George Porter was affiliated with the Royal Institution of Great Britain in the United Kingdom.

Their research primarily contributed to the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Computer Science. Within these domains, their work spanned several subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, and Global and Planetary Change.

Porter's main topics of investigation involved Quantum Information and Cryptography, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Quantum optics and atomic interactions, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, and Hydrology and Drought Analysis.

Their recent papers included the following:

  • Measurement-based ground-state cooling of a trapped-ion oscillator, 2023, Physical review. A/Physical review, A
  • Certifying Multilevel Coherence in the Motional State of a Trapped Ion, 2021, PRX Quantum
  • CONCARE CONTINENCE CARE REGISTRY: USING SELF-REPORTED LONGITUDINAL DATA TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE INTERMITTENT SELF-CATHETERIZATION USER'S EXPERIENCE, 2023, Continence

George Porter frequently collaborated with several co-authors:

  • Chungsun Lee
  • S. C. Webster
  • Jacopo Mosca Toba
  • Ollie Corfield
  • R. C. Thompson

Their publications appeared regularly in venues such as:

  • Physical review. A/Physical review, A
  • PRX Quantum
  • Continence

Best Publications

  • Metal phthalocyanines and porphyrins as photosensitizers for reduction of water to hydrogen

    James R. Darwent;Petter Douglas;Anthony Harriman;George Porter

  • Chemical Reactions Produced by Very High Light Intensities

    R. G. W. Norrish;G. Porter

  • Flash photolysis and spectroscopy. A new method for the study of free radical reactions

    George Na Porter

  • Concentration quenching in chlorophyll

    G. S. Beddard;G. Porter

  • Oxygen quenching of aromatic triplet states in solution. Part 1

    O. L. J. Gijzeman;F. Kaufman;G. Porter

  • CHARACTERISATION OF TRIPLET STATES IN ISOLATED PHOTOSYSTEM II REACTION CENTRES : OXYGEN QUENCHING AS A MECHANISM FOR PHOTODAMAGE

    J.R. Durrant;L.B. Giorgi;J. Barber;D.R. Klug

  • The Triplet State in Fluid Media

    George Na Porter;M. W. Windsor

  • A multimer model for P680, the primary electron donor of photosystem II.

    J. R. Durrant;D. R. Klug;S. L. S. Kwa;R. Van Grondelle

  • Modes of energy transfer from excited and unstable ionized states. Intramolecular and intermolecular energy conversion involving change of multiplicity

    George Porter;M. R. Wright

  • Picosecond time-resolved energy transfer in Porphyridium cruentum. Part I. In the intact alga.

    G. Porter;C.J. Tredwell;G.F.W. Searle;J. Barber

  • Photosensitised dissociation of water using dispersed suspensions of n-type semiconductors

    Andrew Mills;George Porter

  • Photosensitised reduction of water to hydrogen using water-soluble zinc porphyrins

    Anthony Harriman;George Porter;Marie-Claude Richoux

  • Primary photochemical processes in aromatic molecules. Part 9.—Photochemistry of benzophenone in solution

    Unknown

  • Photochemistry of manganese porphyrins. Part 1.—Characterisation of some water soluble complexes

    Anthony Harriman;George Porter

  • The absorption spectroscopy of substances of short life

    George Porter

  • Comparison of the Dl/D2/cytochrome b559 reaction centre complex of photosystem two isolated by two different methods

    K. Gounaris;D.J. Chapman;P. Booth;B. Crystall

  • Picosecond rotational diffusion in kinetic and steady state fluorescence spectroscopy

    G. Porter;P.J. Sadkowski;C.J. Tredwell

  • Primary photochemical processes in aromatic molecules. Part 12.—Excited states of benzophenone derivatives

    Unknown

  • The state of detergent solubilised light-harvesting chlorophyll-a/b protein complex as monitored by picosecond time-resolved fluorescence and circular dichroism

    Jonathan P. Ide;David R. Klug;Werner Kühlbrandt;Linda B. Giorgi

  • Primary photochemical processes in aromatic molecules. Part 3. Absorption spectra of benzyl, anilino, phenoxy and related free radicals

    George Porter;Franklin J. Wright

  • Nanosecond Flash Photolysis

    George Porter;M. R. Topp

  • Photochemical hydrogen production using cadmium sulphide suspensions in aerated water

    James R. Darwent;George Porter

  • Acidity constants in the triplet state

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony Harriman
Anthony Harriman Newcastle University
James Barber
James Barber Imperial College London
David R. Klug
David R. Klug Imperial College London
James R. Durrant
James R. Durrant Imperial College London
Graham R. Fleming
Graham R. Fleming University of California, Berkeley
Yasuhiro Tachibana
Yasuhiro Tachibana RMIT University
Werner Kühlbrandt
Werner Kühlbrandt Max Planck Society
Pedatsur Neta
Pedatsur Neta National Institute of Standards and Technology
Paul A. Christensen
Paul A. Christensen Newcastle University
Keitaro Yoshihara
Keitaro Yoshihara Tokyo Metropolitan University

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