Saturday, July 29, 2017

Paul "Magic Bullet" Ehrlich (March 14, 1854-August 20, 1915)

Dr. Paul Ehrlich was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy.  He invented the precurser technique to Gram staining bacteria. The methods he developed for staining tissue made it possible to distinguish between types of blood cells, which led to the capability to diagnose numerous blood diseases. In 1908, he recieved the Nobel Prize in Physiology of medicine for his contribubtions to immunology.

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