Florey
[flawr-ee, flohr-ee]
- 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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Because this was the South and they were black, they did not know Florey, a white man, very well.
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And I suppose Florey swallowed his knife, and threw his own body into the lagoon!
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It is certainly the Florey burden, going through all our family.
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“My old malady, G—— is troubling me again,” Florey had written.
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Florey
- 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
(flôr′ē)Howard Walter 1898-1968- Australian-born British pathologist. He shared a 1945 Nobel Prize for isolating and purifying penicillin.
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Florey
[flôr′ē]
- 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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