Dr. Ernest Boris Chain, Jewish biochemist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1945 for discovering penicillin, was given high honors today by the Buenos Aires University. He came here to conduct a series of lectures under the joint auspices of the World Jewish Congress and the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovoth, Israel. Dr. Chain is an honorary fellow of the Weizmann Institute.
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