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Paul Ehrlich

1854 - 1915

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Paul Ehrlich (German: [ˈpaʊl ˈʔeːɐ̯lɪç] ; 14 March 1854 – 20 August 1915) was a Nobel Prize-winning German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and antimicrobial chemotherapy. Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure for syphilis in 1909 and inventing the precursor technique to Gram staining bacteria. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Ehrlich has received more than 1,360,559 page views. His biography is available in 78 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Paul Ehrlich is the 27th most popular physician (up from 32nd in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Poland (up from 65th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Physician.

Paul Ehrlich is most famous for his discovery of the drug Salvarsan, which is used to treat syphilis.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Paul Ehrlich ranks 27 out of 502Before him are Pedanius Dioscorides, Jacques Rogge, Rudolf Virchow, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Polycarp, and Camillo Golgi. After him are Willem Einthoven, Alexis Carrel, Georgius Agricola, Al-Zahrawi, Emil von Behring, and António Egas Moniz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Paul Ehrlich ranks 6Before him are Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, Pope Benedict XV, Henri Poincaré, and Leoš Janáček. After him are Karl Kautsky, James George Frazer, Emil von Behring, Henri La Fontaine, Paul Sabatier, and George Eastman. Among people deceased in 1915, Paul Ehrlich ranks 4Before him are Frederick Winslow Taylor, Alois Alzheimer, and Alexander Scriabin. After him are Henry Moseley, Ellen G. White, Porfirio Díaz, Jean-Henri Fabre, Clara Immerwahr, Sergei Witte, Wilhelm Windelband, and Gopal Krishna Gokhale.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Paul Ehrlich ranks 49 out of 1,454Before him are Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Tamara de Lempicka (1898), Ernst Cassirer (1874), Christian Wolff (1679), and Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906). After him are Wojciech Jaruzelski (1923), Władysław III of Poland (1424), Klaus Kinski (1926), Otto Stern (1888), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), and Eric of Pomerania (1381).

Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Paul Ehrlich ranks 3Before him are L. L. Zamenhof (1859) and Rudolf Virchow (1821). After him are Emil von Behring (1854), Albert Sabin (1906), Carl Wernicke (1848), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Jan Jesenius (1566), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), Gavriil Ilizarov (1921), and Hilary Koprowski (1916).