Istituto Superiore di Sanità (Superior Institute of Health). He returned to Britain in 1964 as the founder and head of the biochemistry department at Imperial College London, where he stayed until his retirement, specialising in fermentation technologies. On 17 March 1948 Chain was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1948, he married Anne Beloff, sister of Renee Beloff, Max Beloff, John Beloff and Nora Beloff, and a biochemist of significant standing herself. In his later life, his Jewish identity became increasingly important to him. Chain was an ardent Zionist and he became a member of the board of governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science at Rehovot in 1954, and later a member of the executive council. He raised his children securely within the Jewish faith, arranging much extracurricular tuition for them. His views were expressed most clearly in his speech 'Why I am a Jew' given at the World Jewish Congress Conference of Intellectuals in 1965. Chain was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1969 Birthday Honours. Chain died in 1979 at the Mayo General Hospital in Castlebar, Ireland. The Imperial College London biochemistry building is named after him, as is a road in Castlebar. See also List of Jewish Nobel laureates References Bibliography External links including the Nobel Lecture, 20 March 1946 The Chemical Structure of the Penicillins 1906 births 1979 deaths Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine British Nobel laureates Academics of Imperial College London Fellows of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge 20th-century German chemists Jewish chemists Jewish creationists Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom Knights Bachelor People of Sephardic-Jewish descent Fellows of the Royal Society Members of the French Academy of Sciences German humanitarians Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom British humanitarians British people of Russian-Jewish descent Beloff family Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd class British expatriates in Italy Physicians of the Charité