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Florey

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Flo·rey (flôr), Howard Walter 1898-1968.
Australian-born British pathologist. He shared a 1945 Nobel Prize for isolating and purifying penicillin.

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However, he didn't pursue the line of inquiry, which languished until Florey and Chain and their team at Oxford University took it up 12 years later and developed penicillin as an antibiotic They won a Nobel prize in 1945 for their effort, but today it is Fleming whose name is usually associated with the penicillin discovery, while Florey and Chain have taken a historical back seat.
 
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