Flo·rey (flôr  , fl r), Sir Howard Walter. Baron Florey of Adelaide. 1898-1968. Australian-born British pathologist. He shared a 1945 Nobel Prize for isolating and purifying penicillin, discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming. |
Florey [ˈflɔːrɪ]
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(Biographies / Florey, Howard Walter (1898-1968) M, British, MEDICINE: pathologist) Howard Walter, Baron Florey. 1898-1968, British pathologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1945) with E. B. Chain and Alexander Fleming for their work on penicillin
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| Noun | 1. | Florey - British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968) |
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