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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.
Obituary SIR ERNST CHAIN† Ernst Boris Chain who shared a Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey in 1945 for his work on penicillin, died in Ireland on 12th August 1979 at the age of 73. Chain was born of Jewish parents in Berlin and graduated in chemistry and physiology at the Fredrich-Wilhelm University. He had great ability
SIR ERNST BORIS CHAIN, who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine with Fleming and Florey in 1945, for the discovery and isolation of penicillin, died on 12 August 1979 while on...
- K R L Mansford
- 1979
One of Florey's brightest employees was a biochemist, Dr. Ernst Chain, a Jewish German émigré. Chain was an abrupt, abrasive and acutely sensitive man who fought constantly with Florey over...
His great contribution to science and medicine lay in his role in the initiation of the work in Oxford which led to the demonstration of the therapeutic power of penicillin. For this he shared a Nobel Prize with Howard Florey and Alexander Fleming. He was a cosmopolitan and controversial figure.
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"
Aug 15, 1979 · Dr. Ernst B. Chain, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1945 for his work in the development of penicillin, died yesterday in Ireland at the age of 73.
