Howard Florey
Australian pathologist (1898-1968) · Australia · On the map · Politicians · Died at 69
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston 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 the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
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Florey Lodge, Sheffield
The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford
Florey in his office in 1944
Blue plaque commemorating the isolation and purification of penicillin at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in Oxford
A laboratory worker sprays a solution containing penicillin mould into flasks of corn steep liquor to encourage further penicillin growth.
Florey with his sister Hilda Gardner on arrival in Melbourne in 1944
Commemorative plaque outside the Botanic Gardens, Oxford
