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Ernst Chain

Jewish-German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)

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2 images from works
  • Seven of the early researchers on penicillin. Photograph, 194- (?).
  • Seven of the early researchers on penicillin. Photograph, 194- (?).

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4 works

    • Archives and manuscripts

    Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris

    | Ernst Chain | Date: 1906-1980 | Reference: PP/EBC
    • Audio

    The culture club.

    | Date: 2003
    • Books

    A decade of penicillin / [Sir Ernst Chain].

    | Ernst Chain | Date: 1956
    • Videos

    Antibiotics : the mould, the myth and the microbe.

    | Date: 1986

10 works

    • Videos
    • Online

    The discovery of penicillin.

    | Date: 1964
    • Pictures

    Ernst Boris Chain. Photograph by Keystone, 194-.

    | Date: [between 1940 and 1949] | Reference: 2854579i
    • Books

    A concise history of penicillin / Beecham Research Laboratories, Brentford, England.

    | Beecham Research Laboratories | Date: 1978
    • Books

    Ernst Boris Chain, 19 June 1906 - 12 August 1979 / by Sir Edward Abraham.

    | Edward Abraham | Date: 1983
    • Pictures

    Seven of the early researchers on penicillin. Photograph, 194- (?).

    | Date: [between 1940 and 1949?] | Reference: 749998i
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Related topics

Penicillins
Anti-Bacterial Agents

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