Sir Howard Walter Florey

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Noun1.Sir Howard Walter Florey - British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968)
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 was awarded jointly to biologist, pharmacologist and botanist Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
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