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Paul Ehrlich

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Paul Ehrlich

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Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)

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Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) was a German immunologist, physician, inventor, and university teacher. Born in Strzelin, he held citizenship in the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire. His academic work focused on immunology, bacteriology, chemistry, and chemotherapy. He received his doctorate under the supervision of Karl Weigert and Robert Koch. Ehrlich worked in Freiburg im Breisgau, Berlin, Göttingen, and Frankfurt.

He was a member of the Royal Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and the Académie Nationale de Médecine. Ehrlich received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, the Liebig Medal, and the Croonian Medal and Lecture. He was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Notable works include *Die Wertbemessung des Diphtherieheilserums und deren theoretische Grundlagen* and *Über Salvarsan und Neosalvarsan*. He died of a stroke in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1854
Died
1915
Works
99

Top works

  • Abhandlungen über Salvarsan (Ehrlich-Hata-Präparat 606 gegen Syphilis)
  • Die Wertbemessung des Diphtherieheilserums und deren theoretische Grundlagen
  • Über die neuesten Ergebnisse auf dem Gebiete der Trypanosomenforschung
  • La chimiothérapie expérimentale des spirilloses
  • Ueber continuirliche Thallinzuführung und deren Wirkung beim Abdominaltyphus

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1950-11-30
jazz

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
16
Total plays
27

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

    · 1958 · cited 70,815x

  2. “Mini-mental state”

    · 1975 · cited 68,270x

  3. A consistent and accurate<i>ab initio</i>parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu

    · 2010 · cited 56,883x

  4. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

    · 2009 · cited 46,797x

  5. Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks

    · 2003 · cited 45,719x

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1908

    “in recognition of their work on immunity”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Paul
Family name
Ehrlich
Gender
male
Citizenship
German Empire
Place of birth
Strzelin
Place of death
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Occupation
pharmacologist
Educated at
University of Freiburg
Employer
Charité
Languages spoken
German
Academic degree
doctorate
Doctoral advisor
Robert Koch
Student of
Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs
Doctoral student
Georgy Gabrichevsky
Field of work
chemotherapy
Image
Paul Ehrlich by Franz Wilhelm Voigt 2014.031.jpg
Work location
Frankfurt
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member of
Romanian Academy
Commons category
Paul Ehrlich
date of birth
1854-03-14
date of death
1915-08-20
cause of death
stroke
topic's main category
Category:Paul Ehrlich
manner of death
natural causes
Commons gallery
Paul Ehrlich
nominated for
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
different from
Paul R. Ehrlich
name in native language
Paul Ehrlich
place of burial
Old Jewish Cemetery
writing language
German
interested in
chemistry
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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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.

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