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18-August-2015
18-August-2015

Photographs supplied by Kent Watson / Bryan Cole

The bust commemorates Howard Florey, the South Australian scientist who discovered penicillin.

Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey OM FRS (24 September 1898 – 21 February 1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin. Fleming first observed the antibiotic properties of the mould that makes penicillin, but it was Chain and Florey who developed it into a useful treatment.

Florey's discoveries are estimated to have saved over 6 million lives, in Australia. Florey is regarded by the Australian scientific and medical community as one of its greatest scientists.

 

Location

Address:North Terrace, Adelaide, 5000
State:SA
Area:AUS
GPS Coordinates:Lat: -34.921278
Long: 138.600204
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
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Details

Monument Type:Sculpture
Monument Theme:People
Sub-Theme:Medicine
Designer:John Dowie
Link:http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/adbonli…

Dedication

Actual Monument Dedication Date:Wednesday 25th June, 1969
Front Inscription
Lord Florey
Source: MA ,ADB
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