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Howard Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston is an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin. Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, Florey was the one who conducted the first clinical trials with penicillin in 1941 at Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on the first patient, a police officer. Oxford. The patient began to recover, but later died because Florey was unable to produce enough penicillin at that time. It was Florey and Chain who actually made a useful and effective medicine from penicillin, after the quest was abandoned because it was too difficult.
BornHoward Walter Florey, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Died(aged), Oxford, England
NationalityAustralian
FieldsBacteriology, immunology
InstitutionsUniversity of Adelaide, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield, Australian National University
EducationScotch College, Adelaide, St Peter's College, Adelaide
Alma materUniversity of Adelaide, Magdalen College, Oxford, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Known forDiscovery of penicillin
InfluencesCharles Sherrington
Notable awardsFellow of the Royal Society (1941), Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1945), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1945), Lister Medal (1945), Knight Bachelor, Albert Medal (1946), Royal Medal (1951), Copley Medal (1957), Lomonosov Gold Medal (1965), Wilhelm Exner Medal (1960)

About Howard Florey

Pharmacologist Howard Florey was born on September 24, 1898 in Illinois, United States (He dies at the age of 69, on February 21, 1968).

In 1945, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist for his involvement in the development of penicillin. Over 82 million lives were predicted to have been spared as a result of his discovery.

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Howard Florey before becoming famous

Howard Florey was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1898 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Dog (狗).

He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a doctorate.

Achievement of Howard Florey

After accidently discovering penicillin as mould in his petri dish, which he had left unwashed on a vacation in 1928, he was able to synthesize it.

Howard Florey's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

After his first wife Ethel died, he married Dr. Margaret Jennings, a long-time colleague and research assistant.

Howard Florey Collabed with

He and Biologist Alexander Fleming shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1945.

Howard Florey Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Howard Florey updated on March 18 2023.