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Ernst Chain

Born on June 19, 1906

120

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The 121st anniversary falls on June 19, 2027, in 237 days.

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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