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Sir Ernst Boris Chain FRS FRSA (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.
Sir Ernst Boris Chain (born June 19, 1906, Berlin, Ger.—died Aug. 12, 1979, Mulrany, Ire.) was a German-born British biochemist who, with pathologist Howard Walter Florey, isolated and purified penicillin (which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming) and performed the first clinical trials of the antibiotic.
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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.
Ernst Boris Chain. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945. Born: 19 June 1906, Berlin, Germany. Died: 12 August 1979, Mulrany, Ireland. 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”
Jun 27, 2018 · Chain, Sir Ernst Boris (1906–79) British biochemist, b. Germany. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Howard Florey and Alexander Fleming for the isolation and development of penicillin as an antibiotic. He also studied spreading factor, an enzyme that aids the dispersal of fluids in tissue.
Ernst Boris Chain. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases, shared with Sir Alexander Fleming and Sir Howard Walter Florey. Department of Biochemistry PhD student (1933-1935).
Ernst Chain was an accomplished person with many interests, full of vitality, and possessed of an unbounded energy. He had a passionate belief in the causes he embraced, and was not given to easy compromise.
