Sir Howard Walter Florey
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945
“for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”
Sir Howard Walter Florey was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Ernst Chain for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.
- Field
- Medicine · Pharmacy and Pharmacology
- Lifespan
- 1898–1968