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Bibliography. External links. Ernst Chain. 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.
- German (until 1939), British (from 1939)
- Discovery of penicillin
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 ...
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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. When he died in 1920, his son Ernst was 14 years old. Ernst inherited the family fortune, but Germany's rampant inflation of 1923 and 1924 nearly wiped it out.
It was Chain who uncovered Alexander Fleming's paper on penicillin as part of his larger research into antibiotics and enzymes, together with Howard Florey. They found that penicillin in fact was...
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.
Jun 27, 2018 · German–born English biochemist. Ernst Chain was instrumental in the creation of penicillin , the first antibiotic drug.
