Oxford academic named `Australian of the Century'

A former Oxford academic, Lord Florey (1898–1968), who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945 for his role in the discovery of penicillin, has been named `Australian of the Century' in a poll run by Melbourne's Herald Sun. The judging panel, which included Australian Prime Minister John Howard, placed the pioneering scientist ahead of contenders including Sir Donald Bradman, Errol Flynn, and Rupert Murdoch. In 1935 Howard Florey, a former Rhodes Scholar, returned to Oxford as Professor of Pathology, Fellow of Lincoln College, and for twenty-seven years head of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. He became Provost of Queen's College in 1962.