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
Sir Howard Walter Florey
Born: 1898-09-24 in Adelaide, Australia
Gender: male
Field: Australian pathologist (1898–1968)
Biography
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin.