Howard Walter Florey, M.D., Ph.D.

Affiliations: 
Pathology University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 
Area:
Pharmacology, Pathology
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http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1945/florey-bio.html
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(1898-1968)
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 was awarded jointly to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.
http://www.chemheritage.org/discover/online-resources/chemistry-in-history/themes/pharmaceuticals/preventing-and-treating-infectious-diseases/florey-and-chain.aspx
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/howard_florey.htm
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Parents

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Charles Scott Sherrington research assistant 1925 Oxford (Neurotree)
Alfred Newton Richards research assistant 1926 Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (Neurotree)
Frederick Gowland Hopkins grad student 1927 Cambridge (Chemistry Tree)

Children

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Henry Harris grad student
Peter B. Medawar grad student 1936-1939 Oxford
Ziying Dai grad student 1947-1949 Fudan University School of Medicine (Shanghai Medial College)
Jim Gowans grad student 1952-1955 (Neurotree)
Edward Penley Abraham research scientist Oxford (Chemistry Tree)
Ernst Boris Chain research scientist 1939-1947 Imperial College (Chemistry Tree)

Collaborators

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Alexander Fleming collaborator Oxford
Albert von Szent-Györgyi collaborator 1927 Cambridge (Chemistry Tree)
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Abraham EP, Baker W, Boon WR, et al. (2015) The earlier investigations relating to 2-pentenylpenicellin The Chemistry of Penicillin. 10-37
Chain E, Florey HW, Gardner AD, et al. (2005) THE CLASSIC: penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent. 1940. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 439: 23-6
Chain E, Florey HW, Adelaide MB, et al. (1993) Penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent. 1940. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 3-7
Abraham EP, Chain E, Fletcher CM, et al. (1992) Further observations on penicillin. 1941. European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 42: 3-9
FLOREY HW. (1965) ROLE OF THE SCIENTIST IN MODERN SOCIETY: THE FIRST THREE HUNDRED YEARS. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine. 8: 279-88
FLOREY H. (1965) ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT, SIR HOWARD FLOREY, AT THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING, 30 NOVEMBER 1964. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 161: 439-52
French JE, Jennings MA, Florey HW. (1965) Morphological studies on atherosclerosis in swine. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 127: 780-99
FLOREY HW. (1964) THE TRANSPORT OF MATERIALS ACROSS THE CAPILLARY WALL. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology and Cognate Medical Sciences. 49: 117-28
FLOREY H. (1964) ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT AT THE ANNIVERSARY MEETING, 30 NOVEMBER 1963. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 159: 393-404
Florey H. (1964) The Royal Society: Anniversary address Nature. 204: 1129-1134
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