Rodney. R. Porter

Rodney Porter was born in England in 1917 and died in 1985. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on the structure of antibodies in 1972. Porter studied the structure of antibodies at a time when our knowledge of protein structure was in its infancy. Nevertheless, the was the first to show that enzymatic digestion of immunolgolbuoins could break the molecule into fragments and on this basiss devised the first plausible model model for the IgG molecule. He was the first to suggest that the immunoglobulin molecule was Y shaped. Porter subsequently studied the activities of C1q and complement genes.

Tizard Immunology 4th ed p171