Background
Keith Porter was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on June 11, 1912, the son of Aaron and Josephine Roberts Porter.
Keith Porter was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on June 11, 1912, the son of Aaron and Josephine Roberts Porter.
Harvard University; Acadia University.
He did pioneering biology research using electron microscopy of cells, such as work on the 9 + 2 microtubule structure in the axoneme of cilia. Porter also contributed to the development of other experimental methods for cell culture and nuclear transplantation. He also was responsible for naming the endoplasmic reticulum.
He was an undergraduate at Acadia University and a graduate student at Harvard University.
Starting in the late 1930s he did research at The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He became a citizen of the United States in 1947.
Porter helped found the American Society for Cell Biology and the Journal of Cell Biology. Porter moved to Harvard University in 1961 and to the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1968.
He retired in 1983 and did post-retirement work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the University of Pennsylvania.
UMBC"s Keith R. Porter Core Imaging Facility is dedicated to Porter.