#German-English #biochemist who shared the 1945 #NobelPrize for Physiology or #Medicine with Sir…
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#German-English #biochemist who shared the 1945 #NobelPrize for Physiology or #Medicine with Sir Alexander #Fleming and Howard Walter Florey (later Baron Florey) for their work on #penicillin.
In 1928, Fleming had made the initial discovery of the #antibiotic effect of penicillin. Being Jewish, Chain fled Nazi Germany to England in 1933. His varied research included #phospholipids, snake #venoms, #tumour metabolism and #lysozymes.
From 1939, he worked with Florey on natural antibacterial agents produced by #microorganisms, leading to their #isolation, #purification and determination of the chemical #structure of penicillin. They performed the first #clinical #trials of the antibiotic.
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