Ernst Boris Chain, German born British biochemist, c1945. Artist: Unknown

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Ernst Boris Chain, German born British biochemist, c1945. Chain (1906-1979), with Howard Florey, purified penicillin. He shared the 1945 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine with Florey and with Alexander Fleming who had first discovered the antibiotic. Photograph by courtesy of the Nobel Foundation.

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