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Ernst Chain

Ernst Chain
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Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Albert HofmannJanuary 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008
  2. Ernst Chain (this page)June 19, 1906 – August 12, 1979
  3. Grace HopperDecember 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992
  4. Hans BetheJuly 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005
  5. Nicholas Georgescu-RoegenFebruary 4, 1906 – October 30, 1994
  6. Olga Taussky-ToddAugust 30, 1906 – October 7, 1995

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