Florey, << FLOHR ee, >> Lord (1898-1968), a British bacteriologist, helped develop with Ernst B. Chain the antibiotic penicillin (see Antibiotic; Penicillin). Alexander Fleming, another British bacteriologist, discovered penicillin in 1928. Florey shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Fleming and Chain (see Fleming, Sir Alexander; Chain, Ernst Boris). In 1940 and 1941, Florey’s research team at Oxford University isolated penicillin in relatively pure form and tested it.
Howard Walter Florey was born on Sept. 24, 1898, in Adelaide, Australia. He studied at the University of Adelaide, and as a Rhodes scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford University. Florey died on Feb. 21, 1968.
