Sir Ernst Boris Chain (Noun)
Meaning
British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979).
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Sir Ernst Boris Chain worked closely with Howard Walter Florey to turn penicillin into a practical medicine, leading to the development of mass production techniques.
- Chain's collaboration with Florey led to the awarding of the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, alongside Sir Alexander Fleming.
- In 1935, Sir Ernst Boris Chain fled Nazi Germany and joined the school of pathology at the University of Oxford, where he eventually collaborated with Florey.
- Sir Ernst Boris Chain was knighted in 1969 for his services to medicine, in recognition of his groundbreaking work in the development of penicillin.
- Ernst Boris Chain received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in isolating penicillin, after Fleming's initial discovery of the mould Penicillium notatum's antibacterial properties.