Florey

Flo·rey

 (flôr′ē), Sir Howard Walter Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston. 1898-1968.

Australian-born British pathologist. He shared a 1945 Nobel Prize for isolating and purifying penicillin.

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Florey

(ˈflɔːrɪ)

n

(Biography) Howard Walter, Baron Florey. 1898–1968, Australian 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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Flo•rey

(ˈflɔr i, ˈfloʊr i)

n.

Sir Howard Walter, 1898–1968, Australian pathologist in England: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1945.

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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

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