Nobel Prizes and Laureates

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945
Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst B. Chain, Sir Howard Florey

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945

Sir Alexander Fleming

Ernst Boris Chain

Sir Howard Walter Florey

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 was awarded jointly to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".

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