Florey

[ flawr-ee, flohr-ee ]

noun

1. Sir Howard Walter, 1898–1968, Australian pathologist in England: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945.

Florey

/ ˈflɔːrɪ /

noun

1. FloreyHoward Walter18981968MAustralianMEDICINE: pathologist Howard Walter , Baron Florey. 1898–1968, Australian pathologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1945) with E. B. Chain and Alexander Fleming for their work on penicillin

Florey

/ flôr′ē /

1. Australian-born British pathologist who developed and purified penicillin with Ernst Chain in 1939. For this work, Florey and Chain shared a 1945 Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming, who first discovered the antibiotic in 1928. Florey also supervised the clinical testing and mass production of the drug in the United States.

Example Sentences

They were written at an interval of about ten years: the first from Foston, the second from Combe Florey.

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Lady Holland relates a practical joke of her father's, which the witty canon carried out at his rectory of Combe Florey.

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I had passed Florey the butler, gray and sphynx-like in the hallway, spoke to him as ever, and turned through the library door.

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Testimony has gone to show that Florey was dead, not just severely wounded, when you and the others reached his side.

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Instinctively we went first to the place on the shore where Florey had been slain the night before.

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