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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.
- German (until 1939), British (from 1939)
- Discovery of 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 ...
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". To cite this section. MLA style: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945.
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.
Sir Ernst Boris Chain. b.19 June 1906 d.12 August 1979. KCB (1969) D Phil Berlin (1930) PhD Cantab (1943) MA Oxon (1945) FRS (1949) PhD Liège (1946) Bordeaux (1947) Turin (1954) Paris (1959) Yeshiva (1961) Chicago (1965)Hon FRCP (1965) Ernst Chain was born in Berlin to parents of different origins. His father, Dr. Michael Chain, was a chemist ...
