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Early life and education Abraham was born on 10 June at 47 South View Road, Shirley, Southampton..
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