Ernst Boris Chain:
Ernst Boris Chain was a German-English biochemist and Nobel laureate.
Birth :
June 19, 1906 in Berlin, Germany
Death:
August 12, 1979 in Mulrany, Ireland
Claim to Fame:
Chain was a German-English biochemist who shares the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Howard W. Florey and Alexander Fleming for their research and discoveries of the antibiotic penicillin. Fleming was the bacteriologist who discovered penicillin. Chain and Florey isolated and purified it and conducted the first human trials.
