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Ernst Chain (June 19, 1906 – August 12, 1979) was a German-born British biochemist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”.
Chain was born to a German-Jewish family in Berlin, the son of Margarete (née Eisner) and Michael Chain, a chemist and industrialist dealing in chemical products. His father was a Russian-Jewish émigré from Mogilev (Russian Empire, now Belarus) to study chemistry abroad, and his mother was from Berlin. In 1930, he received his degree in chemistry from Friedrich Wilhelm University. He was a lifelong friend of Professor Albert Neuberger, whom he met in Berlin in the 1930s.
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