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Ernst Boris Chain
1979Aug, 12

Ernst Boris Chain

Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-British biochemist best known for being a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.

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Events on 1979

  • 1Feb

    Ruhollah Khomeini

    Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile.
  • 11Feb

    Ruhollah Khomeini

    The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
  • 16Mar

    People's Liberation Army

    Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
  • 15Jul

    Malaise speech

    U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
  • 16Dec

    OPEC

    Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.