Lord Florey
Florey, Howard Walter Florey, Baron (1898–1968), a British pathologist. In the late 1930's Florey and the British biochemist Ernst B. Chain found a method for concentrating and purifying penicillin and demonstrated its antibiotic action. Florey, convinced of penicillin's value as a drug but unable to mass-produce it in war-torn England, persuaded United States drug experts to produce it commercially. Florey shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with Chain and the discoverer of penicillin, Alexander Fleming.
Florey was born in Adelaide, Australia, and received a medical degree from the city's university. He then studied in England and the United States, receiving a Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University in 1927. In 1935 Florey was appointed professor of pathology at Oxford University, a position he held until 1962, when he became provost (dean) of Queen's College, Oxford. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1941, knighted in 1944, and made a baron in 1965.