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Mar 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.
Chain was naturalised as a British subject in April 1939. In 1939, he joined Howard Florey to investigate natural antibacterial agents produced by microorganisms. This led him and Florey to revisit the work of Alexander Fleming, who had described penicillin nine years earlier. Chain and Florey went on to discover penicillin's therapeutic action ...
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 (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.
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"
Sir Howard Walter Florey. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945. 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.
Jun 22, 2013 · While the name of Alexander Fleming is better known, the team at Oxford University in England that developed penicillin and shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1945 (i.e., Ernst Chain and Howard Florey), has been largely forgotten in public memory.
