Word: florey
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Died. Lord Howard Florey, 69, Oxford pathologist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize with Sir Alexander Fleming and Dr. Ernst Chain for isolating and developing penicillin; of a heart attack; in Oxford. Though penicillin was discovered by Fleming in 1928, the mold was considered little more than a biological curiosity for a decade until the Australia-born Florey and a team of Oxford researchers reduced it to a pure, yellowish powder that destroyed all kinds of bacteria, saving thousands of lives during World War II and untold millions since...
...Nobel Prize winners, Lord Florey for work on penicillin, and Fritz Lippman for his research on intermediate metabolism, received Doctor of Science Degrees...
...Howard Walter Florey, President of the Royal Society since 1960, shared the 1945 Nobel Prize with Chain of Germany and Fleming of England for the preparation of penicillin in concentrated form...