Australian pathologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst
Chain for the isolation of penicillin and its development as an antibiotic drug. His research into lysozyme, an antibacterial enzyme discovered by Alexander
Fleming (who shared the prize), led him to study penicillin (another of Fleming's discoveries), which he and Chain isolated and prepared for widespread use.
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