biography
| name: |
Chain, Sir Ernst Boris
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pronunciation:
[chayn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1906–79)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Berlin, Germany. After studying physiology and chemistry in Berlin, he fled from Nazi Germany to Britain, where he taught at Cambridge (1933–5) and Oxford (1935–48). With Sir Howard Florey at Oxford he was a key figure in the successful isolation of penicillin (discovered earlier by Sir Alexander Fleming), and all three shared the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. He was director of the International Research Centre for Chemical Microbiology in Rome (1948–61), and professor of biochemistry at Imperial College, London (1961–73). He was knighted in 1970. |
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