Florey (redirected from Florey, Howard Walter, Baron)

Flo·rey  (flôr, flr), 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.

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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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Florey - British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968) Howard Florey, Sir Howard Walter Florey