Florey, Howard Walter (1898 - 1968)

Chronology

1921	Rhodes Scholar for South Australia
1925	Rockefeller Travelling Fellow in the United States
1927 - ?	Huddersfield Lecturer in Special Pathology at the University of Cambridge, UK
1931 - 1935	Joseph Hunter Professor of Pathology at the University of Sheffield, UK
1941 -	Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
1944	Knighted
1945	Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine received (shared with E. Chain and A. Fleming)
1960 - 1965	First Australian President of the Royal Society
1962 -	Professor of Pathology and Head of the Pathology School at the University of Oxford, UK
1965	Life Peer
1965 - 1968	Chancellor of the Australian National University in Canberra

• Florey, Mary Ethel Hayter (1900 - 1966)

• 'Sir Howard Walter Florey - Biography', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996, http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1945/florey-bio.html. [ Details ]
• 'The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945 'for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases'', in Nobel e-Museum, 1996, http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1945/index.html. [ Details ]
• 'Howard Florey - development of the first antibiotic, penicillin', in The 1997 Australian Science Festival, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/other/asf_scientists.htm#howard. [ Details ]
• Tallpoppies: Florey, Australian Institute of Political Science, 1998, http://www.tallpoppies.net.au/florey/. [ Details ]
• 'Howard Florey Institute of Experimental Physiology and Medicine Act 1971', in Victorian Legislation and Parliamentary Documents Home Page, 2003, http://www.dms.dpc.vic.gov.au/. [ Details ]
• Sherratt, Tim; et al, 'Howard Florey', a Bright Sparcs Exhibition, Australian Science Archives Project, Canberra, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/nobel/florey.htm. [ Details ]
• Sutherland, Denise, 'Sir Howard Florey - a driven spirit', Australasian Science, Febuary 1998, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_florey.htm. [ Details ]

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P000415. [ Details ]