The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945
Awarded on: 1945-10-25
"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
Affiliations:
- University of Oxford – Oxford, United Kingdom
Ernst Boris Chain
Born: 1906-06-19 in Berlin, Germany
Gender: male
Field: German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)
Biography
Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".