Howard Florey

Howard Florey

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 766,130 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Howard Florey is the 192nd most popular physician (down from 165th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Australia (down from 30th in 2019) and the 3rd 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.