The Saga of Howard Florey
Category
Scientists & Inventors
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Active Era
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#23 in Scientists & Inventors
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ORIGINS & BACKGROUND
Profile & Early Foundations
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (; 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) 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".
THE JOURNEY & BREAKTHROUGHS
Major Works & Significant Milestones
Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, it was Florey and his team at the University of Oxford who made it into a useful and effective drug, ten years after Fleming had abandoned its development.
Key Milestone & Career Defining Moment
They developed techniques for growing, purifying and manufacturing the drug, tested it for toxicity and efficacy on animals, and carried out the first clinical trials.
