Florey

[flawr-ee, flohr-ee]

noun

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

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Florey,” he said, kindly and easily, “I want you to meet Mr. Killdare.
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Absalom Martin
It is certainly the Florey burden, going through all our family.
Kastle Krags
Absalom Martin
Because this was the South and they were black, they did not know Florey, a white man, very well.
Kastle Krags
Absalom Martin
And I suppose Florey swallowed his knife, and threw his own body into the lagoon!
Kastle Krags
Absalom Martin
“My old malady, G—— is troubling me again,” Florey had written.
Kastle Krags
Absalom Martin

British Dictionary definitions for florey

Florey

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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florey in Medicine

Florey

[flôr′ē]Howard Walter 1898-1968

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

florey in Science

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.