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Sir Ernst Boris Chain (* 19. Juni 1906 in Berlin; † 12. August 1979 in Castlebar, Irland) war ein deutsch-britischer Biochemiker, Bakteriologe und Nobelpreisträger. Er ist Mitbegründer der chemischen und medizinischen Forschung an Antibiotika, insbesondere am Penicillin .
Sir Ernst Boris Chain FRS FRSA (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.
- German (until 1939), British (from 1939)
- Discovery of penicillin
Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist who, with pathologist Howard Walter Florey, isolated and purified penicillin (which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming) and performed the first clinical trials of the antibiotic. For their pioneering work on penicillin,
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Professor Chain is author or co-author of many scientific papers and contributor to important monographs on penicillin and antibiotics. He was in 1946 awarded the Silver Berzelius Medal of the Swedish Medical Society, the Pasteur Medal of the Institut Pasteur and of the Societé de Chimie Biologique, and a prize from the Harmsworth Memorial ...
Howard Walter Florey (1898–1968) and Ernst Boris Chain (1906–1979) were the scientists who followed up most successfully on Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin, sharing with him the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 was awarded jointly to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases".
Ernst Chain was a German-born biochemist who moved to Cambridge and Oxford to work on penicillin with Howard Florey and Alexander Fleming. He discovered the structure and mechanism of penicillin and shared the Nobel Prize with them in 1945.
