Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
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1896–1940 · United States
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Musician
1941–1998 · United States
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French physiologist
1895–1988 · United States
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1948–1998 · Canada
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