Prof. Ernst Boris Chain, co-discoverer of penicillin and world renowned scientist, who was driven from Germany a refugee of Nazism was today presented with the Paul Ehrlich prize for Medical Research for 1954, at a ceremony opening the centennary celebration of the birth of Dr. Ehrlich.
Dr. Chain, son of Russian Jewish parents who settled in Berlin, is currently head of the department of research in chemical microbiology at Rome’s Institute Superiore de Sanita. At 47, Dr. Chain is chairman of the experts committee on antibiotics of the World Health Organization, UN affiliate. A Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Chain recently became a member of the board of governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovoth.
The ceremony today was held in St. Paul’s Cathedral, now a German secular shrine, and was witnessed by West German President Prof. Theodor Heuss, half-a-dozen Nobel Prize winners and high German government officials. Also present were two daughters of Prof. Ehrlich, who journeyed here form New York and Los Angeles.
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