Person
Florey, Howard Walter (1898 - 1968)
FRS
- Born
- 24 September 1898
Malvern, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 21 February 1968
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England - Occupation
- Pathologist
Summary
Howard Florey was Professor of Pathology, University of Sheffield 1931-1935 and at the University of Oxford 1935-1962. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine in 1945 for work on penicillin and was Chancellor of the Australian National University 1965-1968. Florey was educated at the Universities of Adelaide (MB, BS), Oxford (MA, BSc) and Cambridge (PhD 1927). He was created Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston in 1965.
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Chronology
- 1921
- Education - Rhodes Scholar for South Australia
- 1925
- Career position - Rockefeller Travelling Fellow in the United States
- 1927 - ?
- Career position - Huddersfield Lecturer in Special Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK
- 1931 - 1935
- Career position - Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology, University of Sheffield, UK
- 1941 -
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
- 1944
- Award - Knighted
- 1945
- Award - Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine (shared with E. Chain and A. Fleming)
- 1960 - 1965
- Career position - First Australian President of The Royal Society, London
- 1962 -
- Career position - Professor of Pathology and Head of the Pathology School, University of Oxford, UK
- 1963
- Award - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
- 1965
- Award - Life Peer
- 1965 - 1968
- Career position - Chancellor, Australian National University in Canberra
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Wife
Archival resources
John Curtin School of Medical Research
- Howard Walter Florey - Records, 1945 - 1955; John Curtin School of Medical Research. Details
National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
- Howard Walter Florey - Records, 1905 - 1967, DeB 220-221; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details
Powerhouse Museum
- Royal de Rohan Barondes, 1944 - 1955, 99/30/1:3, 2002/87/1; Powerhouse Museum. Details
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- Australasian Science, A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/journal.htm. Details
Articles
- Sutherland, Denise, 'Sir Howard Florey - a driven spirit', Australasian Science (1998), http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_florey.htm. Details
Books
- Bickel, Lennard, Rise up to life: a biography of Howard Walter Florey who gave Penicillin to the world (London: Angus and Robertson (U.K.), 1972), 314 pp. Details
- Bickel, Lennard, Florey, the Man who Made Penicillin. (South Melbourne: Sun Books, 1983). Details
- Lax, Eric, The Mould in Dr Florey's Coat: the Remarkable True Story of the Penicillin Miracle (London: Little, Brown, 2004), 389 pp. Details
- MacFarlane, Robert Gwyn, Howard Florey, The Making of a Great Scientist (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979). Details
- Mason, Brett, Wizards of Oz: how Oliphant and Florey helped win the war and shape the modern world (Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2022), 424 pp. Details
- Williams, Trevor I., Howard Florey: Penicillin and After (London: Oxford University Press, 1984), 417 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Anon, 'Miracle mould: Howard Walter Florey' in Australia's Nobel laureates vol. III: state of our innovation nation, 2021 and beyond (One Mandate Group, 2021), pp. 32-43. Details
- Beale, R, 'Howard Walter Florey' in Australia's Nobel Laureates - Adventures in Innovation (Sydney: ABIE Australian Business and Investment Explorer, 2004), pp. 34-43. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Florey, Howard Walter, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (1898-1968), medical scientist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 188-190. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140202b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Abraham, E. P.; Chain, E.; Fletcher, C. M.; Florey, H. W.; Gardner, A. D.; Heatley, N. G.; and Jennings, M. A., 'Further observations on penicillin', Lancet, 238 (1941), 177-89. Details
- Abraham, Edward, 'Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston, 1898 - 1968', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 17 (1971), 255-302. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1971.0011. Details
- Chain, E.; Florey, H. W.; Gardner, A. D.; Heatley, N. G.; Jennings, M. A.; Orr-Ewing, J. and Sanders, A. G., 'Penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent', Lancet, 236 (6104) (1940), 226-8. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Obituary: Howard Walter Florey: Baron of Adelaide and Marston', Australian Journal of Science, 31 (1) (1968), 37-39. Details
- Fenner, Frank, 'Howard Florey', Microbiology Australia, 19 (3) (1998), 37-9. Details
- Florey, Howard, 'Development of Modern Science', Australian Journal of Science, 26 (4) (1963), 99-105. Details
- Florey, Howard, 'David Rivett Memorial Lecture. The Development of Modern Science', Australian Journal of Science, 26 (1963), 99-105. Details
- Goldsworthy, Peter D.; and McFarlane, Alexander C., 'Howard Florey, Alexander Fleming and the fairy tale of penicillin', Medical Journal of Australia, 176 (2002), 178-80. Details
- Harris, Henry, 'Howard Florey and the development of penicillin', Notes and Records of the Royal Society, 53 (2) (1999), 243-52. Details
- Wernert, Gregory T., 'Howard Florey: the Man behind Penicillin', Chemistry in Australia, 65 (8) (1998), 21-25. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q137106. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/20520673. Details
- Tallpoppies: Florey, Australian Institute of Political Science, 1998, http://www.tallpoppies.net.au/florey/. Details
- 'Florey, Howard (1898-1968)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-582921. Details
- 'Awarded honorary LLD, 1963', Honorary degree holders, University of Melbourne, 2023, https://about.unimelb.edu.au/notable-alumni-staff/honorary-degree-holders. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Sir Howard Walter Florey - Biography', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996, http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1945/florey-bio.html. Details
- 'The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 'for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases'', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996, http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1945/index.html. Details
- 'Howard Florey - development of the first antibiotic, penicillin', in The 1997 Australian Science Festival, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/other/asf_scientists.htm#howard. Details
- 'Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine Act 1971', in Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents Home Page, 2003, http://www.dms.dpc.vic.gov.au/. Details
- Sherratt, Tim; et al, 'Howard Florey', A Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/nobel/florey.htm. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_f.html. Details
- Courtice, F. C., 'Bede Morris, 1927-1988', Historical Records of Australian Science, 8 (1) (1989), 15-36. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9890810015. Details
- Davies, Susan, 'R. v.d. R. Wooley in Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 6 (1) (1984), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9840610059. Details
- Foster, S.G.; and Varghese, Margaret M., The Making of the Australian National University 1946-96 (St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin, 1996), 475 pp. Details
- Heagney, Brenda, Half a century of penicillin : an Australian perspective (Sydney: Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1991), 22 pp. Details
- Newton, J. O., 'Ernest William Titterton 1916-1990', Historical Records of Australian Science, 9 (2) (1992), 167-187. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9920920167. Details
- Redgrave, T. G., 'Wilfred John Simmonds 1918-1990', Historical Records of Australian Science, 8 (4) (1991), 265-275. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9910840265. Details
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