Chain's co-recipients of the Nobel Prize were:
Howard Florey and Melvin Calvin
Lederman, Schwartz and Steinberger
Alexander Fleming and Howard Florey
Watson, Crick and Wilkins
Answer
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine of 1945 was jointly awarded to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, and Sir Howard Walter Florey for their discovery of penicillin and its clinical effects in the treatment of infectious diseases. Chain and Florey played instrumental roles in isolating, purifying, and developing penicillin for therapeutic use, building upon Fleming's initial observation of its antibacterial properties in 1928.
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