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Beale, Abraham (–), ironmonger and philanthropist, was born 16 August in Cork, into a quaker family, second of five sons and.
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Edward Abraham
English biochemist (1913–1999)
This article is about the biochemist. For the US Senator from Michigan, see Spencer Abraham.
Sir Edward Penley Abraham, CBE, FRS[3] (10 June 1913 – 8 May 1999) was an English biochemist instrumental in the development of the first antibioticspenicillin and cephalosporin.[4][5]
Early life and education
Abraham was born on 10 June 1913 at 47 South View Road, Shirley, Southampton.
From 1924 Abraham attended King Edward VI School, Southampton, before achieving a First in Chemistry at The Queen's College, Oxford.[6]
Abraham completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Sir Robert Robinson, during which he was the first to crystallise lysozyme,[1][7] an enzyme discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming and shown to have antibacterial properties, and was later the first enzyme to have its structure solved using X-ray crystallography, by Lord Davi