Mary Ethel Florey

Mary Ethel Florey (née Hayter Reed), Baroness Florey (1 ga Oktoba 1900 - 10 ga Oktoba 1966) likita ce ta Australiya kuma masanin kimiyyar likita. Ayyukanta sun taimaka wajen gano penicillin . Ta kasance daga cikin tawagar da ta gudanar da gwaje-gwaje na farko akan penicillin kuma ta fara ba da magani a gwajin ɗan adam. An taƙaita wani ɓangare na bincikenta a cikin littafi mai girma huɗu game da maganin rigakafi da aka buga daga 1952 zuwa 1960.

 Rayuwa, ilimi da aiki 
An haifi Ethel Florey a ranar 1 ga Oktoba 1900.

Ta sami digiri na farko a fannin kiwon lafiya (MB) da kuma digiri na farko na tiyata (BS) daga Jami'ar Adelaide a shekarar 1924.  A shekara ta 1950, ta sami Dokta na Medicine (MD) daga Jami'ar Adelaide .

 Binciken penicillin 
Ta yi aiki tare da Howard Walter Florey kuma ta gudanar da gwaje-gwaje na farko na asibiti na penicillin a 1941 a Radcliffe Infirmary a Oxford a kan mai haƙuri na farko, ɗan sanda daga Oxford mai suna Albert Alexander . Ethel Florey ta gabatar da ɗan sanda kuma mai haƙuri na farko ga Howard Florey .  Mai haƙuri ya fara murmurewa, amma daga baya ya mutu saboda ba su iya ba, a wannan lokacin, don yin isasshen penicillin. Kungiyar Florey ce ta yi amfani da magani mai tasiri daga penicillin, bayan an watsar da aikin saboda yana da wahala sosai. Ayyukan Mary Ethel Florey sun haɗa da gudanarwa da yin rikodin "ci gaban asibiti na gwaji na farko na shari'o'i 187 na sepsis".

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
Mary Florey ta sadu da Howard Walter Florey a 1921 a Adelaide kuma ta auri shi a ranar 19 ga Oktoba 1926 yayin da ma'auratan suka koma London. A cewar Australian Dictionary of Biography, "auren ya kasance mara farin ciki, saboda wani bangare na rashin lafiyarsa kuma a wani bangare saboda rashin haƙuri". Suna da 'ya'ya biyu, Paquita Mary Joanna da Charles du Vé (kuma likita ne).

Mijinta Howard Florey, wanda ya lashe kyautar Nobel saboda rawar da ya taka wajen gano penicillin, ya ce game da Mary Florey: "Ba za a taɓa mantawa da cewa idan ba Ethel ba za a gabatar da penicillin a cikin aikin likita ba lokacin da yake".

Hotonta yana cikin tarin National Portrait Gallery.

 Manazarta 
Rukuni:Matattun 1966
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1900