Helen Porter

| image = Helen Kemp Porter.jpg | birth_name = Helen Kemp Archbold | birth_date = 10 November 1899 | death_date = | birth_place = Farnham, Surrey, England | fields = Biology, botany | workplaces = Imperial College London | alma_mater = Bedford College, University of London and Imperial College London | thesis_year = 1932 | known_for = Studies of polysaccharide metabolism in plants }}

Helen Kemp Porter (née Archbold, later Huggett; 10 November 1899 – 7 December 1987) was a British botanist from Imperial College London. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the first female professor at Imperial College London. Her studies of polysaccharide metabolism in tobacco plants were groundbreaking; she was one of the first British scientists to use the innovative technologies of chromatography and radioactive tracers. Provided by Wikipedia