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University of Cambridge. University of Oxford. Istituto Superiore di Sanità. University College Hospital. 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.
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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Ernst Boris Chain was born on June 19, 1906, in Berlin, his father, Dr. Michael Chain, being a chemist and industrialist. He was educated at the Luisengymnasium, Berlin, where he soon became interested in chemistry, stimulated by visits to his father’s laboratory and factory. He next attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm University, Berlin, where he ...
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 ...
Oct 28, 2011 · A Jew who left Germany when Hitler came to power, Sir Ernst Chain was a winner, with Sir Alexander Fleming and Lord Florey, of the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1945. Later he was a significant figure in the use of the semi-synthetic penicillins which, from the mid-1950s onwards, revolutionized the use of the antibiotic in more ...
- Ronald Clark
- A&C Black, 2011
- 1448202515, 9781448202515
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 ...
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Jun 27, 2018 · Chain, Ernst Boris (1906-1979) German – born English biochemist. Ernst Chain was instrumental in the creation of penicillin, the first antibiotic drug.Although the Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered the penicillium notatum mold in 1928, it was Chain who, together with Howard Florey, isolated the breakthrough substance that has saved countless victims of infections.
