Ernst Boris Chain

Ernst Boris Chain

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945

The Queen’s College - University of Oxford

“for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”

Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.

Field
Medicine · Infectious Diseases
Lifespan
1906–1979