What is Howard Florey?
{{Infobox Scientist |name = Howard Walter Florey |image = Howard Walter Florey 1945.jpg |caption = |birth_date = 28 November 1898 |birth_place = [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]] |death_date = 21 February 1968 (aged 69) |death_place = [[Oxford]], [[England]] |residence = |citizenship = [[Australian]] |nationality = [[Australian]] |field = Pathology |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = Developing penicillin |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |prizes = Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1945 |footnotes = }} '''Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey''' <small>[[OM]] [[FRS]]</small> (24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) was an [[Australia]]n [[Pathology|pathologist]] who shared the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for 1945, for his study into [[penicillin]]. He was appointed a [[Knight Bachelor|knight bachelor]], and later a [[baron]]. ==Early life== He was born in [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]]. He went to the Collegiate School of St.Peter and the Adelaide University. In 1921 he went to [[England]] as a [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes Scholar]] studying first at [[Oxford]] and then at [[Cambridge]]. He worked in the [[United States]] for 10 months before going back to [[London]].<ref name=adb>{{cite web | last = Fenner| first =Frank | title =Florey, Howard Walter (1898-1968) | work =Australian Dictionary of Biography Online | publisher =Melbourne University Press | date =1996 | url =http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140202b.htm }}</ref> In 1926 he married long time friend from Adelaide, Mary Ethel Hayter Reed. They were married in England. == Career == In 1925, Foley visited the United States on a Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship for a year, returning in 1926 to a Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, receiving here his Ph.D. in 1927. The same year, he was appointed Huddersfield Lecturer in Special Pat