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With this Ruby Laser, George Porter Sped up Photochemistry

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It ran on 110 volts DC supplied by a large army diesel engine that sat on the back of a truck parked outside. In 1960, he began giving the occasional public lecture at the Royal Institution , in London, filling in for speakers at the last minute. Porter regarded the institution’s theater as the London repertory theater of science.

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