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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.","summary_more":["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\"."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"14 March 1854","date":"1854-03-14"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57089#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Strzelin","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q719954"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57089#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"20 August 1915","date":"1915-08-20"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57089#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Bad Homburg vor der Höhe","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4165"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57089#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Kingdom of Prussia","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27306"},{"text":"German Empire","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43287"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57089#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"immunologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12119633"},{"text":"inventor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205375"},{"text":"physician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39631"},{"text":"university teacher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1622272"},{"text":"chemist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q593644"},{"text":"pharmacologist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2114605"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57089#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Magdalenaeum Wrocław","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1297729","end":"1872"},{"text":"University of Rostock","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159895"},{"text":"Leipzig University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154804"},{"text":"University of Wrocław","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q315658"},{"text":"University of Strasbourg","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q157575"},{"text":"University of Freiburg","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153987"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57089#P69"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Hedwig Pinkus","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109317867"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57089#P26"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80061","date":"1908"},{"text":"Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q565030","date":"1912"},{"text":"Liebig Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q567492","date":"1911"},{"text":"Croonian Medal and Lecture","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1192912","date":"1900"},{"text":"Foreign Member of the Royal Society","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14906020","date":"1910-06-30"},{"text":"Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29026864"},{"text":"honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134613391","date":"1907"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57089#P166"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ehrlich","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57089"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Paul Ehrlich born?","a":"Paul Ehrlich was born on 14 March 1854 in Strzelin."},{"q":"Where did Paul Ehrlich study?","a":"Paul Ehrlich was educated at Magdalenaeum Wrocław, University of Rostock, Leipzig University, University of Wrocław."}],"related":[{"name":"Alexis Carrel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alexis-carrel"},{"name":"Barbara McClintock","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barbara-mcclintock"},{"name":"Carol W. 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