Porter was not enthusiastic about
high school until his sophomore year, when he took a chemistry class taught
by "…an inspiring teacher who opened doors to a whole new world
of science."
For his birthday that year, his parents gave him a chemistry set. Porter
had fun performing simple experiments. Soon he began to devote more and
more time to laboratory science. Later, he studied biochemistry
and bacteriology
at Harvard University and then went on to obtain a medical degree. He
began his professional career as a medical researcher at Harvard. For
ten years he studied and tested single-cell plant forms under a microscope.
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