Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston, was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.
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Penicillin, Discoveries Led the Oxford team that turned Fleming's observation into a usable medicine in the early 1940s; shared the 1945 Nobel Prize with Fleming and Chain.
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Howard Florey was a pathologist who led the development of penicillin into a usable drug.
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Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
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Born: 1898-09-24
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Born: 1898-09-24
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Died: 1968-02-21
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Died: 1968-02-21
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Lois N. Magner, CRC PressDiscoveries: Penicillin
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Four Bacterial Discoveries, Four Fights Over Who Gets Credit
Howard Florey, part of the Oxford team that purified and tested penicillin
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Why did Howard Florey share the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?
For the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in infectious diseases.
Florey, an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.
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