Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich (March 14, 1854 – August 20, 1915) is a Nobel prize-winning German-Jewish physician and scientist who works in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy.

He is credited with finding a cure for syphilis in 1909.

He invents the precursor technique to Gram staining bacteria

The methods he develops for staining tissue make it possible to distinguish between different types of blood cells, which lead to the capability to diagnose numerous blood diseases.

His laboratory discovers arsphenamine (Salvarsan), the first effective medicinal treatment for syphilis, thereby initiating and also naming the concept of chemotherapy.

Ehrlich popularizes the concept of a magic bullet.

He also makes a decisive contribution to the development of an antiserum to combat diphtheria and conceived a method for standardizing therapeutic serums.

In 1908, he receives the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to immunology.

He is the founder and first director of what is now known as the Paul Ehrlich Institute.

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