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Howard Florey

1898 - 1968

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Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, (; 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) 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 his role in the development of penicillin. Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, it was Florey and his team at the University of Oxford who made it into a useful and effective drug, ten years after Fleming had abandoned its development. They developed techniques for growing, purifying and manufacturing the drug, tested it for toxicity and efficacy on animals, and carried out the first clinical trials. In 1941, they used it to treat a police constable from Oxford. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Howard Florey is the 155th most popular physician (up from 324th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Australia (up from 76th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Australian Physician.

Howard Florey is most famous for his work with penicillin. Florey was one of the three scientists who discovered penicillin, and he was the one who supervised the production of penicillin during World War II.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Howard Florey ranks 155 out of 726Before him are Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Theodor Billroth, Franz Joseph Gall, Erasistratus, George Emil Palade, and Albrecht von Haller. After him are Marie François Xavier Bichat, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Georgios Papanikolaou, Jonas Salk, Herta Oberheuser, and Agnodice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Howard Florey ranks 47Before him are Kenji Mizoguchi, Lionel Robbins, Ahmad Shah Qajar, Héctor Scarone, Konrad Henlein, and Fritz Zwicky. After him are Jeanne Hébuterne, Josef Terboven, Julius Schreck, Therese Neumann, Totò, and Joris Ivens. Among people deceased in 1968, Howard Florey ranks 31Before him are Kees van Dongen, José Nasazzi, Neal Cassady, Alexandre Kojève, Pitirim Sorokin, and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. After him are Ivan Ribar, Kirill Meretskov, Vasily Sokolovsky, Alice Guy-Blaché, Lucio Fontana, and Giovanni Messe.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Howard Florey ranks 35 out of 1,143Before him are Elton Mayo (1880), Mara (null), Hugh Jackman (1968), Colleen McCullough (1937), Peter Singer (1946), and V. Gordon Childe (1892). After him are Lisa Gerrard (1961), Peter Weir (1944), Steve Irwin (1962), Johnny Logan (1954), Margot Robbie (1990), and Kylie Minogue (1968).

Among PHYSICIANS In Australia

Among physicians born in Australia, Howard Florey ranks 4Before him are Peter C. Doherty (1940), John Eccles (1903), and Robin Warren (1937). After him are Barry Marshall (1951), and Elizabeth Kenny (1880).