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Sir Ernst Boris Chain FRS FRSA (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.
Professor Chain is author or co-author of many scientific papers and contributor to important monographs on penicillin and antibiotics. He was in 1946 awarded the Silver Berzelius Medal of the Swedish Medical Society, the Pasteur Medal of the Institut Pasteur and of the Societé de Chimie Biologique, and a prize from the Harmsworth Memorial Fund.
Jun 15, 2024 · Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist who, with pathologist Howard Walter Florey, isolated and purified penicillin (which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming) and performed the first clinical trials of the antibiotic.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey for the discovery of penicillin. Learn about his life, work, and achievements on NobelPrize.org.
This paper is a tribute to the scientific accomplishments of Ernst Chain and the influence he exerted over the fields of industrial microbiology and biotechnology. Chain is the father of the modern antibiotic era and all the benefits that these therapeutic agents have brought, i.e., longer life span ….
- Nelson Kardos, Arnold L. Demain
- 2013
Ernst Chain was a German-born biochemist who moved to Cambridge and Oxford to work on penicillin with Howard Florey and Alexander Fleming. He discovered the structure and mechanism of action of penicillin and shared the Nobel Prize with them in 1945.
Jun 22, 2013 · The microbiological and chemical engineering innovative methods developed by Ernst Chain for microbial product isolation, microbial strain improvement, and production by submerged tank fermentation were sufficiently flexible for use in the discovery and production of new classes of antibiotics.
