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Howard Florey

1898–1968 · 20th century

Howard Florey was an Australian pathologist, born in Adelaide, who led the team at Oxford that turned penicillin into a usable medicine. With Ernst Chain and others he purified the drug and showed its power against bacterial infection in 1940 and 1941, and its mass production saved many lives in the Second World War. He shared the Nobel Prize in 1945 with Chain and Alexander Fleming.

Howard Florey
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Howard Florey. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/howard-florey
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