When was Paul Ehrlich born?

Paul Ehrlich was born on 14 March 1854 in Strzelin.

Where did Paul Ehrlich study?

Paul Ehrlich was educated at Magdalenaeum Wrocław, University of Rostock, Leipzig University, University of Wrocław.

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Paul Ehrlich

Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)

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Paul Ehrlich (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈeːɐ̯lɪç] ; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. He shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Élie Metchnikoff "in recognition of their work on immunity". Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure for syphilis in 1909 and inventing an important modification of the technique for Gram staining bacteria. The methods he developed for staining tissue made it possible to distinguish between different types of blood cells, which led to the ability to diagnose numerous blood diseases.

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Born: 14 March 1854 wd
Place of birth: Strzelin wd
Died: 20 August 1915 wd
Place of death: Bad Homburg vor der Höhe wd
Citizenship: Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire wd
Occupation: immunologist, inventor, physician, university teacher, chemist, pharmacologist wd
Education: Magdalenaeum Wrocław, University of Rostock, Leipzig University, University of Wrocław, University of Strasbourg, University of Freiburg wd
Spouse: Hedwig Pinkus wd

Awards wd

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1908)
Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1912)
Liebig Medal (1911)
Croonian Medal and Lecture (1900)
Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1910)
Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh
honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1907)

About

His laboratory discovered arsphenamine (Salvarsan), the first antimicrobial drug and first effective medicinal treatment for syphilis, thereby initiating and also naming the concept of chemotherapy. Ehrlich introduced the concept of a magic bullet. He also made a decisive contribution to the development of an antiserum to combat diphtheria and conceived a method for standardising therapeutic serums. He was the founder and first director of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, a German research institution and medical regulatory body named for him in 1947, that is the nation's federal institute for vaccines and biomedicines. A genus of Rickettsiales bacteria, Ehrlichia, is named after him.

Ehrlich has been called "father of Chemotherapy".

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When was Paul Ehrlich born?: Paul Ehrlich was born on 14 March 1854 in Strzelin.
Where did Paul Ehrlich study?: Paul Ehrlich was educated at Magdalenaeum Wrocław, University of Rostock, Leipzig University, University of Wrocław.

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