Florey

[ flawr-ee, flohr-ee ]

/ ˈflɔr i, ˈfloʊr i /

noun

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

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Examples from the Web for florey

Instinctively we went first to the place on the shore where Florey had been slain the night before.
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It is certainly the Florey burden—going through all our family.
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It is certainly the Florey burden, going through all our family.
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Florey,” he said, kindly and easily, “I want you to meet Mr. Killdare.
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“My old malady, G—— is troubling me again,” Florey had written.
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British Dictionary definitions for florey

Florey

/ (ˈflɔːrɪ) /

noun

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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Medicine definitions for florey

Florey

[ flôr′ē ]

Howard Walter 1898-1968

Australian-born British pathologist. He shared a 1945 Nobel Prize for isolating and purifying penicillin.

Science definitions for florey

Florey

[ flôr′ē ]

Sir Howard Walter. Baron Florey of Adelaide 1898-1968

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.