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Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (born Sept. 24, 1898, Adelaide, Australia—died Feb. 21, 1968, Oxford, Eng.) was an Australian pathologist who, with Ernst Boris Chain, isolated and purified penicillin (discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming) for general clinical use.
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Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (1898-1968), medical scientist, was born on 24 September 1898 at Malvern, Adelaide, third and youngest child and only son of Joseph Florey, a boot manufacturer from England, and his second wife, native-born Bertha Mary, née Wadham.
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Australasian Science, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/journal.htm. Details
Sutherland, Denise, 'Sir Howard Florey - a driven spirit', Australasian Science (1998), http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_florey.htm. Details
Bickel, Lennard, Rise up to life: a biography of Howard Walter Florey who gave Penicillin to the world (London: Angus and Robertson (U.K.), 1972), 314 pp. DetailsBickel, Lennard, Florey, the Man who Made Penicillin. (South Melbourne: Sun Books, 1983). DetailsLax, Eric, The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat: the Remarkable True Story of the Penicillin Miracle (London: Little, Brown, 2004), 389 pp. DetailsMacFarlane, Robert Gwyn, Howard Florey, The Making of a Great Scientist (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979). DetailsBeale, R, 'Howard Walter Florey' in Australia's Nobel Laureates - Adventures in Innovation (Sydney: ABIE Australian Business and Investment Explorer, 2004), pp. 34-43. DetailsFenner, Frank, 'Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (1898-1968), medical scientist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 14 (Melbourne: Melbourne U...Abraham, E. P.; Chain, E.; Fletcher, C. M.; Florey, H. W.; Gardner, A. D.; Heatley, N. G.; and Jennings, M. A., 'Further observations on penicillin', Lancet, 238 (1941), 177-89. DetailsAbraham, Edward, 'Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston, 1898 - 1968', Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of The Royal Society, 17 (1971), 255-302. DetailsChain, E.; Florey, H. W.; Gardner, A. D.; Heatley, N. G.; Jennings, M. A.; Orr-Ewing, J. and Sanders, A. G., 'Penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent', Lancet, 236 (6104) (1940), 226-8. DetailsFenner, Frank, 'Obituary: Howard Walter Florey: Baron of Adelaide and Marston', Australian Journal of Science, 31 (1) (1968), 37-39. DetailsWikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q137106. DetailsVIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/20520673. DetailsTallpoppies: Florey, Australian Institute of Political Science, 1998, http://www.tallpoppies.net.au/florey/. Details'Florey, Howard (1898-1968)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-582921. Details'Sir Howard Walter Florey - Biography', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996, http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1945/florey-bio.html. Details'The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 'for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases'', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996, http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laur...'Howard Florey - development of the first antibiotic, penicillin', in The 1997 Australian Science Festival, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/other/asf_scientists.htm#howard. Details'Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine Act 1971', in Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents Home Page, 2003, http://www.dms.dpc.vic.gov.au/. DetailsAcademy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimel...Courtice, F. C., 'Bede Morris, 1927-1988', Historical Records of Australian Science, 8 (1) (1989), 15-36. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9890810015. DetailsDavies, Susan, 'R. v.d. R. Wooley in Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (1) (1984), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9840610059. DetailsFoster, S.G.; and Varghese, Margaret M., The Making of the Australian National University 1946-96 (St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 1996), 475 pp. DetailsMar 27, 2020 · Howard Walter Florey (1898–1968) and Ernst Boris Chain (1906–1979) were the scientists who followed up most successfully on Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin, sharing with him the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Jan 23, 2021 · Howard Florey was born in Adelaide. Together with Ernst Chain, he developed penicillin; the anti-bacterial drug now used throughout the world. It comes from a mould, discovered by Alexander Fleming.
Born: 24 September 1898, Adelaide, Australia. Died: 21 February 1968, Oxford, United Kingdom. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”. Prize share: 1/3.
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While Alexander Fleming is often credited with discovering penicillin in 1928, Howard Walter Florey oversaw initial clinical trials and led the team that first produced large quantities of this antibiotic, which played an important role in the Allied victory in World War II.
