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Chain

  [cheyn]
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–noun
Sir Ernst Boris  [urnst, ernst] , 1906–79, English biochemist, born in Germany: Nobel prize for medicine 1945.
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Main Entry: chain
Pronunciation: 'chAn
Function: noun
often attributive 1 : a series of things (as bacteria) linked, connected, or associatedtogether
2 : a number of atoms or chemical groups united like links in a chain
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Chain (chān), Ernst Boris. 1906-1979.

German-born British biochemist. He shared a 1945 Nobel Prize for isolating and purifying penicillin, discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming.

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Chain, Sir Ernst Boris 1906-1979.  
German-born British bacteriologist who, with Howard Florey, developed and purified penicillin in 1939. For this work, they shared a 1945 Nobel Prize with Alexander Fleming, who first discovered the antibiotic in 1928.
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