Ernst 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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- 1906
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- 5
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- 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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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".
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1906 births1979 deaths20th-century German chemistsAcademics of Imperial College LondonBeloff familyBritish expatriates in ItalyBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureatesBritish people of German-Jewish descentBritish people of Russian-Jewish descentCitation overkillEmigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom