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Noun: Sir Ernst Boris Chain
  1. British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
    - Chain, Ernst Boris Chain

Type of: biochemist

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