|Born||Howard Walter Florey 24 September 1898 Adelaide, South
Australia |Died||21 February 1968 (aged 69) Oxford, United
Kingdom |Alma mater||University of Adelaide, University of
Oxford, University of Cambridge| |Known for||Discovery of
penicillin's properties| |Notable awards||Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine (1945)| Howard Walter Florey, Baron
Florey, OM, FRS (24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) was an
Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris
Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of
penicillin. Florey's discoveries are estimated to have saved
over 6 million lives. Florey is regarded by the Australian
scientific and medical community as one of its greatest
scientists. Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving
Prime Minister, said that "in terms of world well-being, Florey
was the most important man ever born in Australia". Howard
Florey was the youngest of 5 children. His father John Florey w