The Nobel Prize
- Date:
- 1945-1975
- Reference:
- PP/EBC/A.56-A.77
- Part of:
- Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris
- Archives and manuscripts
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The Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for 1945 was awarded to Fleming, Florey and Chain 'jointly for the discovery of penicillin and its curative action in various infectious diseases'.
Chain was in America when the award was announced; some of the letters and telegrams of congratulations in A.60-A.73 were therefore addressed to his cousin Anna Sacharina who kept house for him in Oxford (see also A.207).
The publicity attendant on the award promoted several letters from former friends or family acquaintances describing their wartime vicissitudes and enquires about the fate of others. These letters have been grouped together in A.72.
A.74-A.77 contain later material relating to various celebrations and meetings organised by Nobel Foundation, 1950-75.
see B.36-B.38 for material relating to Chain's Nobel lecture on 'The Chemical Structure of the Penicillins'.