The Summer Learning Journey challenged me to read a list of Noble Prize winners, choose one and then share our learning onto our blogs. I choose
Howard Florey.
Howard was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1898.
While at school Howard excelled in Chemistry and physics, he also enjoyed many sports and received a scholarship and went on to study medicine. Howard's work was mainly based around the antibacterial properties of penicillin mould. After successfully treating some patients, Howard went on to find how to produce penicillin in large quantities. He was able to do this in 1945 and was administered to the allied troops. Howard won the Nobel Prise in Physiology and Medicine award sharing it with Ernst Boris Chain and Alexander Fleming. Howard's face was printed on the Australian $50 note for 22 years. After earning the Nobel Prise in Physiology and Medicine award he went on to earn many others such as King Bachelor, The Royal Society of Medicine, The Lister Medal . . . While at the University of Adelaide Howard meet a lady named Mary Ethel Hayter Reed, another medical student, who became both his wife and his research colleague. They had two children Paquita Mary Joanna and Charles Du Vé. The marriage was unhappy, due to Ethel's poor health and Florey's intolerance. After the death of his wife Ethel, he married again in 1967 his long-time colleague and research assistant Margaret Jennings. Howard died of a congestive heart failure in 1968 and was honoured with a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, London.
That was what I learnt about Howard Florey, have you ever heard of him or someone similar??
