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Noun: Howard Florey
  1. British pathologist who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1898-1968)
    - Florey, Sir Howard Walter Florey

Type of: diagnostician, pathologist

Encyclopedia: Howard Florey, Baron Florey