Howard florey and biography wikipedia
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Florey, Howard Walter
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Adelaide, Australia, 24 September 1898; d. Oxford, England, 21 February 1968)
pathology.
Florey’s scientific career was devoted to the experimental study of disease processes. His most notable contribution to science was the development of penicillin as a systemic antibacterial antibiotic suitable for use in man.
Florey was the third and last child, and the only son, of Joseph Florey and his second wife, Bertha Mary Wadham, a native of Australia.
Joseph Florey owned a boot factory, and the family was in comfortable circumstances.
Howard florey and biography wikipedia
The son attended St. Peter’s Collegiate School, Adelaide, as a day boy. He had a brilliant scholastic career, obtaining scholarships at St. Peter’s and subsequently for study at the University of Adelaide.
From an early age Florey had decided to study medicine and carry out medical research, rather than learn the management of the family business.
He enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Adelaide in 1