Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.
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Shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and a direct working partnership distinct from the shared-prize-only Florey-Fleming edge already wired by ChangeLogId 3625: Chain was Florey's own collaborator on the Oxford team (per that same edge's own citation) that turned penicillin into a usable drug, unlike Fleming who had already abandoned its development.
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1. Ernst Boris Chain (Wikidata)
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was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
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19 June 1906
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12 August 1979
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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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