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Howard Florey

1898 - 1968

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Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey, (; 24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of penicillin. Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, it was Florey and his team at the University of Oxford who made it into a useful and effective drug, ten years after Fleming had abandoned its development. They developed techniques for growing, purifying and manufacturing the drug, tested it for toxicity and efficacy on animals, and carried out the first clinical trials. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Howard Florey has received more than 802,677 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Howard Florey is the 324th most popular physician (down from 192nd in 2019), the 75th most popular biography from Australia (down from 35th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Australian Physician.

Howard Florey is most famous for his work with penicillin. Florey was one of the three scientists who discovered penicillin, and he was the one who supervised the production of penicillin during World War II.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Howard Florey ranks 324 out of 726. Before him are Lorna Wing, Friedrich Hoffmann, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, William Cullen, and Dorothea Erxleben. After him are James Curtis Hepburn, Willi Graf, Clarke Abel, Carlos Finlay, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, and Tomáš Špidlík.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Howard Florey ranks 105. Before him are Kaj Munk, Jacques Doriot, Gabriel González Videla, Ferenc Plattkó, Leon Štukelj, and Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt. After him are Shinichi Suzuki, Vladimir Fock, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Paul Robeson, and Messali Hadj. Among people deceased in 1968, Howard Florey ranks 89. Before him are Louis, Prince of Hesse and by Rhine, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Soraya Tarzi, Ludovico Scarfiotti, and Duke Kahanamoku. After him are Tullio Serafin, R. Norris Williams, Tallulah Bankhead, Tivadar Soros, Lilian Harvey, and Ramón Menéndez Pidal.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Howard Florey ranks 75 out of 1,143. Before him are John Howard (1939), Peter Sculthorpe (1929), Bryan Brown (1947), Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (1972), Elizabeth von Arnim (1866), and Diane Cilento (1933). After him are David Helfgott (1947), Toni Collette (1972), David Bruce (1855), Ron Clarke (1937), Judy Davis (1955), and Nick Vujicic (1982).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Australia

Among physicians born in Australia, Howard Florey ranks 4. Before him are John Eccles (1903), Robin Warren (1937), and Barry Marshall (1951). After him are Peter C. Doherty (1940), and Elizabeth Kenny (1880).

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