Ernst Chain
Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)
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Updated 2026-05-29
German-born biochemist who won the 1945 Nobel Prize alongside Fleming and Florey for turning penicillin from lab curiosity into a lifesaving drug. One of the scientists who made antibiotics actually work.
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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".
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