Back Ernst Boris Chain Afrikaans إرنست تشين Arabic ارنست تشين ARZ ارنست چین AZB Эрнст Борыс Чэйн Byelorussian Ернст Борис Чейн Bulgarian এর্নস্ট বরিস কাইন Bengali/Bangla Ernst Chain BS Ernst Boris Chain Catalan ئێرنست چەین CKB
Sir Ernst Chain | |
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 Chain in 1945 | |
| Born | Ernst Boris Chain 19 June 1906 |
| Died | 12 August 1979 (aged 73) Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland |
| Citizenship | German (until 1939) British (from 1939) |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Discovery of penicillin |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3[1] |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1945) Fellow of the Royal Society (1948) Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1954) Knight Bachelor (1969) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biochemistry |
| Institutions | Imperial College London University of Cambridge University of Oxford Istituto Superiore di Sanità University College Hospital |
Sir Ernst Boris Chain FRS FRSA[2] (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.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
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- ^ Raju, T. N. (1999). "The Nobel chronicles. 1945: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955); Sir Ernst Boris Chain (1906-79); and Baron Howard Walter Florey (1898-1968)". Lancet. 353 (9156): 936. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)75055-8. PMID 10094026. S2CID 54397485.
- ^ Notter, A. (1991). "The difficulties of industrializing penicillin (1928-1942) (Alexander Fleming, Howard Florey, Ernst Boris Chain)". Histoire des Sciences Médicales. 25 (1): 31–38. PMID 11638360.
- ^ Abraham, E. P. (1980). "Ernst Chain and Paul Garrod". The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 6 (4): 423–424. doi:10.1093/jac/6.4.423. PMID 7000741.
- ^ Mansford, K. R. (1979). "Sir Ernst Chain, 1906-1979". Nature. 281 (5733): 715–717. Bibcode:1979Natur.281..715M. doi:10.1038/281715a0. PMID 399328.
- ^ Abraham, E. P. (1979). "Obituary: Sir Ernst Boris Chain". The Journal of Antibiotics. 32 (10): 1080–1081. doi:10.7164/antibiotics.32.1087. PMID 393682.
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- ^ Wagner, W. H. (1979). "In memoriam, Dr. Ernst Boris Chain". Arzneimittel-Forschung. 29 (10): 1645–1646. PMID 391241.