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Florey Howard Walter, Baron Florey. 1898--1968, British pathologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1945) with E. B. Chain and Alexander Fleming for their work on penicillin How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Our earlier field trips had also taken us to the Cambridge History Faculty Library and the leaking, languishing Florey Building in Oxford). Florey was one of about 500 people who attended the Career Site Connection Job Fair on Wednesday at the Long Beach Convention Center. However, he didn't pursue the line of inquiry, which languished until Florey and Chain and their team at Oxford University took it up 12 years later and developed penicillin as an antibiotic They won a Nobel prize in 1945 for their effort, but today it is Fleming whose name is usually associated with the penicillin discovery, while Florey and Chain have taken a historical back seat. |
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