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Nobel Prize

Australia · Science / Medicine. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1945–1960Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1945

Howard Walter Florey1945

Stockholm · Science / Medicine

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery and therapeutic development of penicillin as an effective treatment for bacterial infection.

1960

Frank MacFarlane Burnet1960

Science / Medicine

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine, discovers acquired immune tolerance

Names involved

Frank MacFarlane BurnetHoward Walter Florey

Provenance

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