The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945

"for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases"

Sir Alexander Fleming

Great Britain

London University
London, Great Britain

1881 - 1955
born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6th, 1881
Biography

Sir Ernst Boris Chain

Great Britain

Oxford University
Oxford, Great Britain

1906 - 1979
born on June 19, 1906, in Berlin, his father, Dr. Michael Chain, being a chemist and industrialist.
Biography

Lord Howard Walter Florey

Great Britain

Oxford University
Oxford, Great Britain

1898 - 1968
born on September 24, 1898, at Adelaide, South Australia
awarded a Rhodes Scholarship
Biography