Awards & Winners

Howard Florey

Date of Birth 24-September-1898
Place of Birth Adelaide
(Australia, South Australia, Oceania)
Nationality Australia
Profession Scientist
Howard Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide OM FRS FRCP was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin. Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of Penicillin, it was in fact Florey who carried out the first ever clinical trials in 1941 of penicillin at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford on the first patient, a Postmaster from Wolvercote near Oxford. The patient started to recover but unfortunately subsequently died because Florey had not made enough penicillin. Florey's discoveries are estimated to have saved over 82 million lives. Florey is regarded by the Australian scientific and medical community as one of its greatest scientists. Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister, said that "In terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia".

Awards by Howard Florey

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1957


Copley Medal
(In recognition of his distinguished contributions to experimental pathology and medicine.)

1945


Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases.)