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NOUN
- British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968)
How To Use Florey In A Sentence
- Although popular mythology credits Alexander Fleming, it was Florey and his team who gave the world the miracle drug, penicillin.
- The Prime Minister of Australia , said that "in terms of world well-being, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia".
- However, Florey succeeded in arousing the interest of the authorities in the Physiology or Medicine 1945 - Presentation Speech
- He found an opportunity to work in the biochemistry laboratory at Cambridge, and then came to Florey.
- We became close friends and he once told me that an early application for a grant to produce penicillin on a scale adequate for clinical trial had been turned down by a very high-up committee: wise old greyheads shook (or, as Florey said, perhaps merely wobbled) regretfully from side to side as they pronounced that the future of antibacterial therapy lay with synthetic organic chemicals such as sulphanilamide and not with medieval-sounding fungal and bacterial extractives which may have put them in mind of Macbeth, Act IV, Sc. 1. A Better Mouse Trap