Plaque Wording: The Right Hon. Howard Walter Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston, O.M., Kt., P.R.S., F.R.C.S., B.R.C.S., M.D. Born Adelaide 1898 Died Oxford 1968. S.A. Rhodes Scholar, 1921. Jointly awarded Nobel Price for Medicine in 1945, for the research which showed the curative properties of penicillin and made it universally available. Fellow of the Royal Society 1941-1968 President, 1960-1969. Chancellor of Australian National University, 1965-1968.