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Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908

Nobel co-recipient Ilya Mechnikov

Physician, Scientist. Immunologist, Hematology pioneer. Founded Chemotherapy. Classified stains. Stained tissues, blood cell granules, tubercle bacillus. Standardized sera. Idea: Drugs’ chemical constitution related to action, affinity for cells against which directed.

“Schwann established cell as biological unit. Concept of cell is axis around which whole modern science of life revolves”

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Paul Ehrlich smoked a lot of cigars. He was always healthy except for tuberculosis for some time. He died of 2nd stroke.

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Paul Ehrlich, Tombstone, (Old) Jewish cemetery at Rat-Beil-Strasse in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Source: Wikimedia Commons