Ernst Boris Chain

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British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)

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Fleming finally abandoned penicillin, and not long after he did, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford took up researching and mass-producing it, with funds from the U.S. and British governments. Source: Internet

In Oxford, Ernst Boris Chain and Edward Abraham discovered how to isolate and concentrate penicillin. Source: Internet

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