Portrait of Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey
Date
ca.1960s
Sitter
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston (1898 - 1968, Australian) , Pathologist
Creator
Walter Bird (1903 - 1969, British) , Photographer
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Image reference
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 155mm
width (print): 155mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Howard Walter Florey inclined to the right and looking back over to the left, away from viewer. He is dressed in a dark suit, white shirt and dark spotted tie and he is wearing spectacles.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898-1968), Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, served as Vice President between 1951-1953 and President between 1960-1965. He was joint recipient with Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) and Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1945 for ‘for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases’.
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey (1898-1968), Australian pathologist and pharmacologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, served as Vice President between 1951-1953 and President between 1960-1965. He was joint recipient with Ernst Boris Chain (1906-1979) and Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) of the Nobel Prize (Physiology or Medicine) in 1945 for ‘for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases’.
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