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Howard Florey was an Australian pathologist and pharmacologist who is best known for his role in the development of penicillin. He was born on 24 September 1898 in Adelaide, Australia. He attended the University of Adelaide, where he studied medicine, graduating in 1921. He then went on to study pathology at the University of Oxford, where he worked with Ernst Chain and Alexander Fleming. Florey and Chain were the first to isolate and purify penicillin, and they developed a method of mass-producing the drug. Florey and Chain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for their work. Florey was knighted in 1944 and made a life peer in 1965. He was also awarded the Order of Merit in 1965. He died on 21 February 1968 in Oxford, England. At the time of his death, Florey had an estimated net worth of $2 million.

Popular As Howard Walter Florey
Occupation miscellaneous
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 24 September 1898
Birthday 24 September
Birthplace Adelaide, South Australia
Date of death February 21, 1968
Died Place Oxford, England
Nationality Australia

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Who Is Howard Florey's Wife?

His wife is Mary Ethel Florey (m. 1926-1966) Margaret Jennings (m. 1967)

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Children 2, including Charles du Vé

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2013

The Florey Institute for Host–Pathogen Interactions at the University of Sheffield is named in his honour.

2006

Penicillin: The Magic Bullet is a 2006 Australian film production written by Gordon Glenn and financed by the Film Finance Corporation and Arcimedia Productions in association with Film Victoria. Breaking the Mould is a 2009 historical drama that tells the story of the development of penicillin in the 1930s and '40s, by the group of scientists at Oxford headed by Florey at the Dunn School of Pathology. The film stars Dominic West as Florey, Denis Lawson, and Oliver Dimsdale; and was written by Kate Brooke and directed by Peter Hoar.

1973

Florey's portrait appeared on the Australian $50 note for 22 years (1973–95), and the suburb of Florey in the Australian Capital Territory is named after him. The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, located at the University of Melbourne, Victoria, and a lecture theatre in the University of Adelaide's medical school are also named after him. The defunct Australian Student Prize, given to outstanding high-school leavers, was previously called the "Lord Florey Student Prize" in recognition of Florey.

1967

At the University of Adelaide, he met Ethel Reed (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. After the death of his wife Ethel, he married in 1967 his long-time colleague and research assistant Margaret Jennings (1904–1994). He died of a congestive heart failure in 1968 and was honoured with a memorial service at Westminster Abbey, London.

1965

On 4 February 1965, Sir Howard was created a life peer and became Baron Florey, of Adelaide in the State of South Australia and Commonwealth of Australia and of Marston in the County of Oxford. This was a higher honour than the knighthood awarded to penicillin's discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, and it recognised the monumental work he had done in making penicillin available in sufficient quantities to save millions of lives in the war, despite Fleming's doubts that this was feasible. On 15 July 1965 Florey was appointed a Member of The Order of Merit.

1958

In 1958 Florey opened the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU in Canberra. In 1965 the Queen made him Lord Florey and he was offered, and accepted, the role of Chancellor of the Australian National University.

1950

The Florey Science Centre at St Peter's College, Adelaide is named after him, as he attended the college. It was opened post 1950. The building facilitates science classes for students from Year 7 to Year 12. On the lowest floor's concourse there is a commemorative statue and plaque.

1945

Florey's research team investigated the large-scale production of the mould and efficient extraction of the active ingredient, succeeding to the point where, by 1945, penicillin production was an industrial process for the Allies in World War II. However, Florey said that the project was originally driven by scientific interests, and that the medicinal discovery was a bonus:

1944

On 18 July 1944 Florey was appointed a Knight Bachelor. In 1947 he won the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine.

1941

Although Fleming received most of the credit for the discovery of penicillin, it was Florey who carried out the first ever clinical trials of penicillin in 1941 at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford on the first patient, a police constable from Oxford. The patient started to recover, but subsequently died because Florey was unable, at that time, to make enough penicillin. It was Florey and Chain who actually made a useful and effective drug out of penicillin, after the task had been abandoned as too difficult.

1932

After Cambridge, Florey was appointed to the Joseph Hunter Chair of Pathology at the University of Sheffield in 1932. In 1935 he returned to Oxford, as Professor of Pathology and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, leading a team of researchers. Working with Ernst Boris Chain, Norman Heatley and Edward Abraham, he read Alexander Fleming's paper discussing the antibacterial effects of Penicillium notatum mould.

1924

Florey continued his studies at Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar under the tutelage of Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, receiving the degrees of BA in 1924 and MA in 1935. In 1925, he left Oxford to attend the University of Cambridge, during which time he won a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation and studied in the United States for ten months. He returned to England in 1926 and was elected to a fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and a year later he received the degree of PhD.

1917

Florey was educated at Kyre College Preparatory School (now Scotch College) and then St Peter's College, Adelaide, where he excelled in chemistry and physics, but not mathematics. He also played various sports for the school: cricket, football, athletics, and tennis. He studied medicine at the University of Adelaide from 1917 to 1921, paid entirely by a state scholarship he had achieved.

1898

Howard Florey was born on September 24, 1898 in Malvern, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia as Howard Walter Florey. He was married to Margaret Augusta Jennings and Mary Ethel Hayter Reed.