Howard Florey
Academic
1898 – 1968
Who was Howard Florey?
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide OM FRS FRCP was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin. Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, it was Florey who carried out the first ever clinical trials in 1941 of penicillin at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford on the first patient, a Postmaster from Wolvercote near Oxford. The patient started to recover but subsequently died because Florey had not made enough penicillin.
Florey's discoveries are estimated to have saved over 82 million lives. Florey is regarded by the Australian scientific and medical community as one of its greatest scientists. Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, said, "In terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia".
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- Born
- Sep 24, 1898
Adelaide - Also known as
- 霍華德·弗洛里,弗洛里男爵
- Spouses
- Ethel Reed
(1926/10/19 - 1966/10/10) - Margaret Jennings
(1967/06 - 1968/02/21)
- Ethel Reed
- Children
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Cambridge
( - 1927) - Master of Arts, Magdalen College, Oxford
Physiology
( - 1924) - Bachelor of Arts, University of Adelaide
Medicine
(1917 - 1921) - Surgery
- University of Oxford
- St Peter's College, Adelaide
( - 1915) - Bachelor of Arts, Magdalen College, Oxford
- PhD, University of Cambridge
- Died
- Feb 21, 1968
Oxford
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on July 23, 2013
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