Porter Fellowship

Abstract

This annual Fellowship was founded by W. T. Porter in 1921 with proceeds from the Harvard Apparatus Company which he founded. In many other ways, also, Dr. Porter was a generous benefactor of the Society, especially in founding and donating to the Society the American Journal of Physiology. The original stipend of the Porter Fellowship was $1,200 and it was Dr. Porter’s hope that this might be continued indefinitely. This hope was realized, and with the exception of the war years there has been a Porter Fellow every year. A list of all the Porter Fellows is given in table 14. More complete data can be found in The Physiologist (1 (5): 16, 1958). It is obvious that many of these young men and women have subsequently earned enviable reputations in physiological research.