Howard Florey - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1945
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Howard Florey

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1945
for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases
Together with: Alexander Fleming , Ernst Chain
Citizenship
Australia Australia
Languages
English
date of birth
9/24/1898
place of birth
Adelaide
date of death
2/21/1968
place of death
Oxford
Lived
69 years

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position held
  • member of the House of Lords
    • end time: 2/21/1968
    • start time: 2/4/1965
  • President of the Royal Society
    • end time: 1965
    • start time: 1960
member of
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1963
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1963
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Royal Society of London
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
occupation
  • pathologist
  • physician
  • politician
  • pharmacist
  • professor
  • chemist
  • biochemist
educated at
  • University of Adelaide
  • Magdalen College
work location
  • London
employer
  • University of Sheffield
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