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Sir Ernst Boris Chain FRS FRSA [2] (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. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] Life and career.
Sir Ernst Boris Chain 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”
Ernst Boris Chain, a German-born biochemist, shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology with pathologist Howard W. Florey (1898–1968) and bacteriologist Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative value in a number of infectious diseases.”
- Marc A. Shampo, Robert A. Kyle
- 2000
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 ...
Feb 23, 2021 · Nearly ten years later in 1937, while investigating microorganisms and the substances they produced, Howard Florey and Ernst Chain uncovered Fleming’s research and assembled a team of scientists to work solely on the 'Penicillin Project'.
