Florey

American  

[flawr-ee, flohr-ee] / ˈflɔr i, ˈfloʊr i /

noun

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

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Florey British  

/ ˈflɔːrɪ /

noun

1. 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

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Florey Scientific  

/ 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.

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Example Sentences

“The idea is for tribes to regain what they lost,” Florey said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024

“It’s highly significant,” says Anthony Hannan, a neuroscientist at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne, Australia.

From Scientific American • Oct. 13, 2023

It was shared with his fellow researchers Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2023

Finance chief Reinhard Florey will assume responsibility for the energy segment on an interim basis from Jan. 1 until Gaso's appointment comes into effect, it added.

From Reuters • Dec. 14, 2022

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

From Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery by Martin, Absalom