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Ernst Boris Chain

nobel prize for medicine


Details of the Nobel Prize awarded to Ernst Boris Chain
Full Name
of the recipient		Ernst Boris Chain
AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Year of Award1945
Share in Award33.3%
Award Shared withSir Alexander Fleming (33.3%)
Sir Howard Walter Florey (33.3%)
Motivation
for the Award		for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases
Affiliation
at the Time of Award		University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Place of BirthBerlin, Germany DEU
Date of Birth19 June 1906
Age
at the time of Award		38 years
Place of DeathMulrany, Ireland IRL
Date of Death12 August 1979
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