1906 – Born on June 19th in Berlin, Germany. German biochemist.
1928 – Worked with pathologist Howard Florey, Ernst Chain investigated Alexander Fleming’s accidental discovery of the penicillium notatum mold.
1933 – Chain fled Germany when Adolf Hitler took power, but his mother was unable to escape, and was killed in a German concentration camp.
1935 – He was a Pathology teacher at Oxford University.
1945 – Shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology with Howard Florey and Alexander Fleming.
1947 – Received the French Legion of Honor.
1948 – He was director of the International Research Centre for Chemical Microbiology in Rome.
1949 – Became a member of the Royal Society.
1961 – He was a professor of Biochemistry at the Imperial College London.
1969 – Appointed as a Knight of the British Empire.
1979 – Died of heart failure on August 12th Castlebar, Ireland.