Chain, Ernst Boris

Viviane M Quirke, The Queen's College, Oxford, UK

Published online: April 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002749

1906–1979 German (naturalized as a British subject in 1939) biochemist who in 1945 shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine with Howard Florey and Alexander Fleming for his contribution to the development of penicillin.

Keywords: Howard Florey; penicillin; semisynthetic penicillins; Imperial College

 Further Reading
    book Chain EB (1970) Landmarks in Biochemical Research. London: Imperial College of Science and Technology.
    book Chain EB and Hems DA (1977) Biologically Active Substances: Exploration and Exploitation. Chichester, UK: Wiley.
    Abraham E (1983) Ernst Boris Chain. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 29: 43–48.
    book Clark RW (1985) The Life of Ernst Chain: Penicillin and Beyond. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

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Quirke, Viviane M(Apr 2001) Chain, Ernst Boris. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0002749]