Paul Ehrlich Facts
Paul Ehrlich Facts
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| Paul Ehrlich was born in Strehlen, near Breslau, Poland where his father was a distiller and leader of the local Jewish community. |
| He attended the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau before entering the universities of Breslau, Freiburg in Breisgau and Leipzig. |
| In the 1870's he studied staining bacteria with dyes and his doctoral dissertation was titled Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Histological Staining. |
| His research led to his discovery of a new type of cell he named mast cells. |
| In 1880 he began his study of red blood cells and discovered nucleated red blood cells. |
| In 1881 he developed a new urine test that could distinguish various types of typhoid from other causes of diarrhea. |
| In 1882 he earned his doctorate in medicine and worked at the Charite in Berlin under Theodor Frerichs, the founder of experimental clinical medicine. |
| While continuing his research at the Charite, he developed a dry specimen technique that allowed for better observation and staining of cells. |
| In 1886 he finished his habilitation and spent 1888 and 1889 traveling in an attempt to cure the tuberculosis he had caught in his work. |
| In 1891 he was asked by Robert Koch to join the Berlin Institute of Infectious Diseases. |
| In 1896 he became the director of the Institute for Serum Research and Testing at the Berlin Institute. |
| In 1889 the institute moved to Frankfurt am Main and renamed the Institute of Experimental Therapy. |
| In 1901 he received a request from the German Emperor Wilhelm II to found a department of cancer research at his institute. |
| Ehrlich discovered that when tumors are grown from transplanted tumor cells their malignancy increases from generation to generation. |
| In 1909 he invented Salvarsan, which was the first drug for the treatment of a specific pathogen. |
| After extensive testing the drug was marketed by Hoechst and it became the most effective drug for treating syphilis until the invention of penicillin in the 1940s. |
| In 1903 he was awarded the Great Golden Medal of Science in Prussia and was only the second scientist ever to receive this prize. |
| In 1908 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his "work on immunity." |
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