biography
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Florey (of Adelaide), Sir Howard Walter Florey, Baron
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pronunciation:
[flawree]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1968)
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| biography:
| Pathologist, born in Adelaide, South Australia. He studied medicine at Adelaide and Oxford, taught at Cambridge and Sheffield, then became professor of pathology at Oxford (1935–62), where he worked with Chain on penicillin, and shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1945). He was appointed provost of Queen's College, Oxford (1962) and Chancellor of the Australian National University, Canberra (1965). Knighted in 1944, he became a life peer in 1965. |
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