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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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

Articles

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

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See also

McCarthy, G.J.

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