Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine(shared)
Sir Howard Walter Florey won The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945.
Howard Florey
"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases". Source:nobelprize.org
The nobel prize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 was awarded jointly to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.
Howard Florey is famous for developing penicillin as an antibiotic drug. Along with Alexander Fleming and Ernst Boris Chain, he played a crucial role in isolating and purifying penicillin for medical use, leading to its mass production and widespread adoption as a life-saving treatment for bacterial infections. For his contributions, Howard Florey was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945.
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Howard Florey studied medicine at the University of Adelaide, in Australia, from 1917 to 1921. Although Alexander Fleming is credited with the discovery of penicillin, Florey carried out the first ever clinical trials of penicillin at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford in 1941.
Sir Howard Walter Florey worked at the University of Oxford in England. He was a pharmacologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for his role in the development of penicillin.
No Noble prize in physics was awarded in 1916. If there is no work or advance deemed important by the Nobel Foundation, then there no prize is awarded. This was why no prize was awarded in 1916.
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