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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 ...
Ernst Chain. Foto oficial de Ernst Boris Chain para o Prêmio Nobel. Ernst Boris Chain ( Berlim, 19 de junho de 1906 — Castlebar, 12 de agosto de 1979) foi um bioquímico alemão de origem judaica. Foi agraciado com o Nobel de Fisiologia ou Medicina de 1945, por pesquisas sobre a penicilina .
At Oxford University, Ernst Chain found Fleming’s 1929 article on penicillin and proposed to his supervisor, Howard Florey, that he try to isolate the compound. Florey’s predecessor, George Dreyer, had written Fleming earlier in the 1930s for a sample of his strain of Penicillium to test it for bacteriophages as a possible reason for ...
Jun 22, 2013 · This paper is a tribute to the scientific accomplishments of Ernst Chain and the influence he exerted over the fields of industrial microbiology and biotechnology. Chain is the father of the modern antibiotic era and all the benefits that these therapeutic agents have brought, i.e., longer life spans, greater levels of public health, widespread modern surgery, and control of debilitating ...
Aug 15, 1979 · Ernst Boris Chain was born in Berlin on June 19, 1906, the son of a prosperous chemical manufacturer. He took his doctor of philosophy degree in chemistry at Friedrich Wilhelm University in 1930 ...
Jan 20, 2021 · Ernst Boris Chain was born in Berlin, and began his scientific education there. He was also an accomplished pianist, who in his youth considered a career in music, but eventually chose science. However, Chain was Jewish, and in 1933, when Hitler came to power, he left Germany for England. By the mid-1930s he was working in Oxford, where he was ...
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. Florey and Chain each brought scientific knowledge and talent to the effort that filled out the other’s ...
