Ernst Chain

Who is this?

Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".

Career

1. 1906
   Born
2. 1945
   Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
3. 1948
   Won Fellow of the Royal Society
4. 1949
   Member of Royal Society
5. 1954
   Won Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize
6. 1956
   Won Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
7. 1962
   Member of French Academy of Sciences
8. 1969
   Won Knight Bachelor
9. 1979
   Passed away
10. Member of Academy of Sciences of the USSR

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Berlin
• •Citizenship: United Kingdom, Germany
• •Known as: biochemist, university teacher, chemist
• •Spouse: Anne Beloff-Chain