Ernst Chain

Also known as Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Ernst Chain, Sir Ernst Boris Chain

Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)

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Ernst Chain was a biochemist born in Germany in 1906 who became a British citizen and made important contributions to medicine during his lifetime until his death in 1979. He is historically significant as a Jewish scientist who worked during a period when many Jewish researchers faced persecution in Europe, and his work helped advance the field of biochemistry in the twentieth century.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1906
Works: 5

Top works

Enzymatische Esterbildung und Esterspaltung
Food technology in the 1980s
A discussion on penicillin and related antibiotics
Penicillin
Social responsibility and the scientist in modern western society

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Type: Group
Origin: Australia
Active from: 1968

blues rockpsychedelic rock

Discography

Toward the Blues1971
I Thought You Weren't My Friend / Elephant1973
Two of a Kind1973
Child of the Street1985
Australian Rhythm & Blues1987
Blue Metal1989
Mix Up the Oils1999
Sweet Honey2005

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,048x
Controlled growth of monodisperse silica spheres in the micron size range
· 1968 · cited 13,346x
Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
· 2015 · cited 11,578x
Staging of brain pathology related to sporadic Parkinson’s disease
· 2003 · cited 9,077x
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,828x

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Quotes

“The future of medicine is safe in your hands.”

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Image: Ernst Boris Chain 1945.jpg

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Commons category: Ernst Boris Chain
date of birth: 1906-06-19
date of death: 1979-08-12
name in native language: Ernst Boris Chain
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Article

Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".

Life and career