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Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)

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Howard Florey

Australian pathologist (1898–1968)

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, 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.
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

One of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. The Nobel Prize is not a single prize, but five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's 1895 will, are…
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February 21

Day of the year

February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 313 days remain until the end of the year.
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