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  1. Department of Biochemistry PhD student (1933-1935). Ernst Chain was born in Berlin in 1906 where his father had established a chemical factory. With this background it is unsurprising that he studied chemistry and physiology at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University and completed a D.Phil. (on the optical specificity of esterases) in the Institute of ...

  2. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 was awarded jointly to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"

  3. Ernst Chain 1906 - 1979. Ernst Chain's father came from Russia to Germany to study chemistry. He stayed there, marrying a Berliner and starting a successful chemical manufacturing company. When he died in 1920, his son Ernst was 14 years old. Ernst inherited the family fortune, but Germany's rampant inflation of 1923 and 1924 nearly wiped it out.

  4. The discovery of penicillin in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) marked the beginning of the antibiotic revolution. 2 Ernst Chain and Howard Florey purified the first penicillin, penicillin G, in 1942 but became widely available outside the Allied military in 1945. 3 This marked the beginning of the antibiotic era. This antibiotic era ...

  5. In the same year Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, and Ernst Chain were awarded the Nobel Prize for their penicillin research. The co-operative efforts of American chemists, chemical engineers, microbiologists, mycologists, government agencies, and chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers were equal to the challenge posed by Howard Florey and ...

  6. Sir Howard Walter Florey was born on September 24, 1898, at Adelaide, South Australia, the son of Joseph and Bertha Mary Florey. His early education was at St. Peter’s Collegiate School, Adelaide, following which he went on to Adelaide University where he graduated M.B., B.S. in 1921. He was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College ...

  7. Sir Harry Champion. SIR HARRY CHAMPION, CIE, Emeritus Professor of Forestry in the University of Oxford, died on 19 June 1979. He was born in 1891 and was educated at the Royal Grammar School ...

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