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Howard Florey

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Australian pathologist, born in Adelaide in 1898, who ran the Sir William Dunn School at Oxford from 1935. A Rhodes Scholar of cool temperament and ruthless organisational drive, he assembled the team that turned Fleming's curiosity into a drug. He flew to the United States in 1941 to negotiate industrial production. Created Baron Florey of Adelaide in 1965, he is regarded in Australia as one of the country's greatest scientists.

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