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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.
- German (until 1939), British (from 1939)
- Discovery of penicillin
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.
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Jun 27, 2018 · Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) was one of three men (Australian biochemist Howard Walter Florey and Scottish chemist Alexander Fleming completed the trio) who discovered and developed the first antibiotic, penicillin. Chain's parents were Russian Jews who had emigrated to Berlin, Germany.
Ernst Chain was said to have a volatile and sometimes combative personality, and he was unhappy with postwar developments in his field in England.
Oct 10, 2023 · He grabbed a German biochemist in his lab, Ernst Chain, a plump fellow with a walrus mustache. He told Chain to get some Penicillium mold and find the penicillin molecule. By all accounts Chain was a jerk.
Ernst Chain. 1906 - 1979. Ernst Chain's father came from Russia to Germany to study chemistry. He stayed there, marrying a Berliner and starting a successful chemical manufacturing company....
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