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Howard Florey (1898–1968) was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Chain and Alexander Fleming for his role in the development of the antibiotic penicillin. While Fleming received most of the credit for the drug's discovery, it was Florey and his team at the University of Oxford in England who developed techniques for growing, purifying and manufacturing it, tested it on animals and carried out the first clinical trials. Later trials in Britain, the United States and North Africa were highly successful. In addition to his work on penicillin, Florey studied other antibiotics, including lysozyme and the cephalosporins, and researched contraception. He was elected President of the Royal Society in 1960, became the provost of The Queen's College at Oxford in 1962, and served as the chancellor of the Australian National University from 1965 until his death. Florey's discoveries are estimated to have saved more than 80 million lives. (Full article...)
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In the news
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- Daniel Noboa (pictured) is elected President of Ecuador.
- Parties opposing the incumbent Law and Justice party win a combined majority of seats in the Polish general election.
- The National Party, led by Christopher Luxon, wins the most seats in the New Zealand general election.
- Australian voters reject altering the Constitution to establish an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
On this day
- 1415 – Hundred Years' War: The army of Henry V of England, consisting mostly of archers, unexpectedly defeated the numerically superior French cavalry at the Battle of Agincourt on Saint Crispin's Day.
- 1760 – George III became King of Great Britain and Ireland, succeeding his grandfather George II.
- 1920 – Irish playwright and politician Terence MacSwiney (pictured) died after a hunger strike in Brixton Prison, bringing the Irish struggle for independence to international attention.
- 1927 – The Italian cruise liner SS Principessa Mafalda sank when a propeller shaft broke and fractured the hull, resulting in 314 deaths.
- 1980 – Proceedings on the Hague Abduction Convention, a multilateral treaty providing an expeditious method to return a child taken from one member nation to another, concluded at The Hague.
- Magnus the Good (d. 1047)
- Johann Strauss II (b. 1825)
- Larry Itliong (b. 1913)
- Nancy Cartwright (b. 1957)
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The Neue Nationalgalerie is a museum for modern art in Berlin, Germany, with its main focus on the 20th century. It is part of the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums. The museum building and its sculpture gardens were designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1968, with a modernist design and constructed largely from steel and glass. Neue Nationalgalerie serves as a repository for a notable collection of 20th-century European art. Its holdings include masterpieces by prominent figures such as Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Joan Miró. The gallery closed in 2015 for renovation works, and reopened in August 2021 with an exhibition of works by American sculptor Alexander Calder. This photograph is a view of the western and southern façades of the building, with Calder's sculpture Têtes et Queue in the foreground. Photograph credit: Alexander Savin
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