- Paul Ehrlich was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy
| Born: | 29 May 1932 Comment | | When did Paul Ehrlich die? / Died | 20 August 1915 | | How many years did Paul Ehrlich live? / Lived | -17 years | | Zodiac sign: | Gemini |
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Paul Ehrlich facts
- He invented the precursor technique to 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 capability to diagnose numerous blood diseases
- His laboratory discovered arsphenamine (Salvarsan), the first effective medicinal treatment for syphilis, thereby initiating and also naming the concept of chemotherapy
- Ehrlich popularized 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 standardizing therapeutic serums
- In 1908, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to immunology
- He was the founder and first director of what is now known as the Paul Ehrlich Institute
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