Florey

[flawr-ee, flohr-ee]

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Sir Howard Walter, 1898–1968, Australian pathologist in England: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945.

Florey

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Howard Walter , Baron Florey. 1898–1968, Australian pathologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1945) with E. B. Chain and Alexander Fleming for their work on penicillin

Florey

Australian-born British pathologist who developed and purified penicillin with Ernst Chain in 1939. For this work, Florey and Chain shared a 1945 Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming, who first discovered the antibiotic in 1928. Florey also supervised the clinical testing and mass production of the drug in the United States.

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But an Oxford team of scientists, led by Howard Florey, carried out the first successful trials.

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“The idea is for tribes to regain what they lost,” Florey said.

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“It’s highly significant,” says Anthony Hannan, a neuroscientist at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne, Australia.

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It was shared with his fellow researchers Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

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Finance chief Reinhard Florey will assume responsibility for the energy segment on an interim basis from Jan. 1 until Gaso's appointment comes into effect, it added.

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