Sir Howard Florey’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should wish in the first place to thank most sincerely the Nobel Foundation and the Committee for Physiology and Medicine for the very great honour you have conferred on me today. My colleagues…

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Ernst B. Chain’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1945 Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like to express to you my deep gratitude for the very great honour conferred on me by the award of a Nobel prize which has come to be regarded universally as the…

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  Question: When was Sir Alexander Fleming born? Answer: Fleming was born on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield Farm near Darvel, Scotland.   Question: When did he die? Answer: Fleming died of a heart attack on 11 March 1955 in London, United Kingdom. He was cremated and his ashes were interred at St Paul’s Cathedral.…

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Works in Spanish Desolación. – New York : Instituto de las Españas, 1922 Ternura : canciones de niños. – Madrid : Saturnino Calleja, 1924 Tala. – Buenos Aires : Sur, 1938 Los sonetos de la muerte y otros poemas elegíacos. – Santiago : Philobiblion, 1952 Lagar. – Santiago, 1954 Croquis mexicanos; Gabriela Mistral en México.…