Florey

[ flawr-ee, flohr-ee ]

noun

1. Sir Howard Walter, 1898–1968, Australian pathologist in England: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1945.

Florey

/ ˈflɔːrɪ /

noun

1. FloreyHoward Walter18981968MAustralianMEDICINE: pathologist Howard Walter , Baron Florey. 1898–1968, Australian pathologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1945) with E. B. Chain and Alexander Fleming for their work on penicillin

Florey

/ flôr′ē /

1. Australian-born British pathologist who developed and purified penicillin with Ernst Chain in 1939. For this work, Florey and Chain shared a 1945 Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming, who first discovered the antibiotic in 1928. Florey also supervised the clinical testing and mass production of the drug in the United States.

Example Sentences

The exemption process often takes into account a tribe’s ancestral connection to the land, but gives tribes a “pretty narrow path to walk,” Florey said.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s highly significant,” says Anthony Hannan, a neuroscientist at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne, Australia.

From Scientific American

It was shared with his fellow researchers Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

From BBC

Finance chief Reinhard Florey will assume responsibility for the energy segment on an interim basis from Jan. 1 until Gaso's appointment comes into effect, it added.

From Reuters

Florey described her daughter as a beautiful, bubbly and loving child.

From Seattle Times