CHAIN, ERNST BORIS

1906–79, English biochemist, b. Berlin, Germany. In 1933 he left Germany and went to England, where he conducted research at Cambridge from 1933 to 1935 and at Oxford from 1935; he lectured (1936–48) in chemical pathology at Oxford. In 1951 he became director of the International Research Center for Chemical Microbiology, Istituto Superiore de Sanità, Rome. He was professor of biochemistry at the Univ. of London from 1961. For his work on penicillin, Chain shared with Sir Alexander Fleming and Sir Howard Florey the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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books on: Chain Ernst Boris  - 22 results

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The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners, 1901-2000
Book by Louise S. Sherby; Oryx Press, 2002
Subjects: Biography--20th Century--Dictionaries, Nobel Prizes
...in that field. B.R.W. 1945 Chain, Ernst Boris, Sir 324 Prize : Medicine and Physiology...91. Clark, R.W. The Life of Ernst Chain . New York: St. Martin Press, 1985. Commentary : Ernst Chain shared the Nobel for the discovery...
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Science & Technology Almanac
Book by Lynn Lauerman; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Science--Periodicals, Technology--Periodicals
...was an adviser to J.Robert Oppenheimers team, which built the first atom bomb in the United States. Chain, Ernst Boris 1906 1979 Ernst Boris Chain, a British biochemist of German-Jewish extraction, discovered penicillin. Working with Howard...
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A Century of Nobel Prizes Recipients: Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine
Book by Francis Leroy; Marcel Dekker, 2003
Subjects: Scientists--Biography
...electron microscopy. 1945 Chain, Ernst Boris ( Berlin, Germany, June...production of penicillin. Ernst Chains father was a Russian Jew...Florey became interested in Chains work on the properties of lysozyme. Chain was familiar
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The Evolution of Chemistry: A History of Its Ideas, Methods, and Materials
Book by Eduard Farber; Ronald Press, 1952
Subjects: Chemistry--History
...Anders, 64 Chadwick, James, 262 Chain, Ernst Boris, 322 Chambers, E., 67 Chancourtois...Benoit Pierre Emile, 205 Claus, Ernst Carl, 175 Clausius, Rudolf, 199...John Frederick, 220 Darmstaedter, Ernst, 80 Darwin, Charles, 94 Davis...
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Science in the Third Reich
Book by Margit SzÖllÖsi-Janze; Berg, 2001
Subjects: National Socialism And Science, Science--Germany--History--20th Century, World War, 1939-1945--Science--Germany
...Berg, Raissa L. 226 Bergmann, Ernst D. 249 Bergmann, Max 248 , 250...Wolfgang 80 Ceelen, Wilhelm 168 Chain, Ernst Boris 158 , 248 , 266 7, 272 Chargaff...Clusius, Klaus 259 , 274 Cohen, Ernst 255 Cohnheim, Julius 143 , 165...
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journal articles on: Chain Ernst Boris  - 11 results

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J. B. S. Haldane's Last Years: His Life and Work in India (1957-1964)
Journal article by Krishna Dronamraju; Genetics, Vol. 185, 2010
Subjects: Cancer, Colleges & universities, Enzyme kinetics, Life sciences, Science, Theory
...fleeingNaziGermany. Prominent among them was biochemist Boris Chain who was introduced to Howard Florey by Haldane; Chain...barriers within a species, as emphasized byHaldanes friend Ernst Mayr (Mayr 1942). Haldane believed that such research...
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Guido Pontecorvo ("ponte"): a Centenary Memoir
Journal article by Bernard L. Cohen; Genetics, Vol. 177, 2007
Subjects: Chromosomes, Genetics, Guido Pontecorvo, History, Medical research, Research & development--R&D, University colleges
...continent (among them Max Born, Ernst Chain, Albert Einstein, Rudolf Peirls...products of milli-micromolar reaction chains would be produced and consumed in...close, collaborative contact with Boris Ephrussi, who did not initially...
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East Germany in 1956: Walter Ulbricht's Tenacity in the Face of Opposition
Journal article by Johanna Granville; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 52, 2006
Subjects: East Germany--History, East Germany--Research, Political parties--Germany, Political parties--Political activity, Political parties--Research, Ulbricht, Walter--Political activity
...to reader like "links on a chain" peredaetsya po tsepochke...leading economist in the GDR), Ernst Bloch (professor of philosophy...with Tito be arranged. See Boris Starkov, "Sto Dnei Lyubyanskovo...59) Wilfriede Otto, "Ernst Wollweber: Aus Erinnerungen...
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The Last of the Mohicans: How Walter Ulbricht Endured the Hungarian Crisis of 1956
Journal article by Johanna Granville; German Politics and Society, Vol. 22, 2004
Subjects: Germany--Political aspects, Political history--Evaluation, Politicians--Political activity, Ulbricht, Walter--Political activity
...to reader like "links on a chain" (peredaetsya po tsepochke...leading economist in the GDR); Ernst Bloch (professor of philosophy...with Tito be arranged. See Boris Starkov, "Sto Dnei Lyubyanskovo...58.) Wilfriede Otto, "Ernst Wollweber: Aus Erinnerungen...
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Performing Black-Jewish Symbiosis: The "Hassidic Chant" of Paul Robeson
Journal article by Jonathan Karp; American Jewish History, Vol. 91, 2003
Subjects: Jewish music--History, Jewish music--Performances, Jewish music--Social aspects, Music, Jewish--History, Music, Jewish--Performances, Music, Jewish--Social aspects, Robeson, Paul--Performances
...present back to the Middle Ages, an unlikely chain of connections that linked: 1) Levi Yitzhaks...Hassidic Chant" epitomized the convoluted chain of associations, analogous to Robesons...unacknowledged by Robeson--finally caused the chain to snap. In late March of 1961, around...
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magazine articles on: Chain Ernst Boris  - 2 results

 
 
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Ralph Kohn
Magazine article by Robert Matthew-Walker; Musical Opinion, Vol. 125, September 2002
...which Ralph Kohn went to the Institute of Public Health in Rome to study with the legendary Nobel Prize Winner Sir Ernst Boris Chain, who had been awarded the Medicine and Physiology Prize jointly with Sir Alexander Fleming and Sir Howard Florey...
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The Global Finance 600: the World's Most Powerful Financial Players
Magazine article; Global Finance, Vol. 12, September 1998
Subjects: Executives, International finance, Manycompanies, Manycountries, Manypeople, Power, Public officials
...Turkeys biggest gas station chain, is a mess. FRANCE...Nomura Securities. RUSSIA Boris Berezovsky Considered...what deals President Boris Yeltsin is cutting...summer he merged two chains to form Mariner Post...insurer. GERMANY Rolf-Ernst Breuer Germanys most...large US gas station chain. PHILIPPINES George...


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newspaper articles on: Chain Ernst Boris  - 5 results

 
 
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Breaking the Mould; Modest Pioneer: Penicillin Discoverer Sir Alexander Fleming Described His Fame as a 'Myth'
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 4, 2007
Subjects: Fleming, Alexander
...Florey organiseda large and skilled research team (Ernst Boris Chain, A. D. Gardner, NormanHeatley, M. Jennings...SirWilliam Dunn School of Pathology to undertake the task. Ernst Chain worked out how to isolate and concentrate penicillin...
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Business
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 7, 2008
...McKinsey. When Mayor Boris Johnson wanted to know...Buy that will create a chain of consumer electronics...the countrys supermarket chain, for the Weston family...Valerie and more. Sold a chain of dentists for ?100m...appetite. Mark Otty, 43 ERNST YOUNG, CHAIRMAN Ernst...
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Labour and Lib-Dem Voters Will 'Keep the Tories out of London'; MAY6 ELECTION 17 Days to Go
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 19, 2010
Subjects: Political parties
...tradition", a reference to the chain of constituencies in the south...also sought to warn that Mayor Boris Johnsons cuts gave a clue to...half that in the capital. "Boris won by a whisker. Just 75...seized on a warning, from the Ernst Young Item Club of economists...
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Ratner and Johnson for the Forum
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 12, 2007
...boss Gerald Ratner and Conservative MP Boris Johnson are heading to the North-East...Glasgow shipyard to running the UKs largest chain of Indian restaurants. Meanwhile, the...supported by Ward Hadaway, Barclays, Ernst Young, One NorthEast and Tyne Wear Development...
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To the Manor Bought
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 13, 2006
...owner of Max Studio, a global fashion chain with over 150 outlets selling contemporary...Croesus-like Russians: Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, both keen collectors with...the Hanover sale in Germany, when Prince Ernst sold off the entire contents of his family...


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encyclopedia articles on: Chain Ernst Boris  - 2 results

 
 
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Chain, Ernst Boris
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHAIN, ERNST BORIS 1906 79, English biochemist, b. Berlin, Germany. In 1933 he left...biochemistry at the Univ. of London from 1961. For his work on penicillin, Chain shared with Sir Alexander Fleming and Sir Howard Florey the 1945 Nobel...
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Nobel Prizes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Alexander Fleming E. B. Chain Sir Howard W. Florey...Beadle E. I. Tatum Boris L. Pasternak 1959 Philip...Kissinger Le Duc Tho Ernst Otto Fischer Geoffrey...Lee John C. Polanyi Ernst Ruska Gerd Binnig Heinrich...San Suu Kyi Richard R. Ernst Pierre-Gilles de Gennes...


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