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# Ernst Boris Chain

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Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist.

## Quick Facts About Ernst Boris Chain

Notable works Academic and industrial contributions to drug research

## About Ernst Boris Chain

Sir Ernst Boris Chain 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".

##  Quotes by Ernst Boris Chain

> [There are many ways in which people are made aware of their power to believe in the supremacy of Divine guidance and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernst-boris-chain/there-are-many-ways-in-which-people-are-made-aware-of-their-power-to/)

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> [Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernst-boris-chain/science-as-long-as-it-limits-itself-to-the-descriptive-study-of-the/)

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> [ The principle of \[divine\] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernst-boris-chain/the-principle-of-divine-purpose-stares-the-biologist-in-the-face/)

[Ernst Boris Chain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernst-boris-chain/)

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