Search results
Ernst Boris Chain (Berlín, Alemania, 1906 - Dublín, Irlanda, 1979) fue un bioquímico galardonado con el Premio Nobel en Fisiología o Medicina. Placa homenaje a Ernst Boris Chain en Berlin-Moabit, Alemania. Vida y carrera
Conoce la vida y obra de Ernst Boris Chain, el bioquímico que colaboró con Fleming y Florey en el desarrollo de la penicilina. Descubre cómo pasó de ser un refugiado en Berlín a ganar el Premio Nobel de Medicina y Fisiología en 1945.
Sir Ernst Boris Chain FRS FRSA (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.
Bioquímico británico de origen alemán que colaboró con Howard Walter Florey en el aislamiento de la penicilina. Premio Nobel de Medicina en 1945 por su descubrimiento de los antibióticos.
Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist who, with pathologist Howard Walter Florey, isolated and purified penicillin (which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming) and performed the first clinical trials of the antibiotic.
Professor Chain is author or co-author of many scientific papers and contributor to important monographs on penicillin and antibiotics. He was in 1946 awarded the Silver Berzelius Medal of the Swedish Medical Society, the Pasteur Medal of the Institut Pasteur and of the Societé de Chimie Biologique, and a prize from the Harmsworth Memorial Fund.
Ernst Boris Chain. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945. Born: 19 June 1906, Berlin, Germany. Died: 12 August 1979, Mulrany, Ireland. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”
