Medal

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945

"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"
Sir Alexander Fleming Ernst Boris Chain Sir Howard Walter Florey
Sir Alexander Fleming Ernst Boris Chain Sir Howard Walter Florey
third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize third 1/3 of the prize
United Kingdom United Kingdom Australia
London University
London, United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
b. 1881
(in Lochfield, Scotland)
d. 1955
b. 1906
(in Berlin, Germany)
d. 1979
b. 1898
d. 1968
 
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