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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 an important modification of the technique for Gram staining bacteria. The methods he developed for staining tissue made it possible to distinguish between different types of blood cells, which led to the ability to diagnose numerous blood diseases. His laboratory discovered arsphenamine (Salvarsan), the first antibiotic and first effective medicinal treatment for syphilis, thereby initiating and also naming the concept of chemotherapy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Ehrlich is the 37th most popular physician (down from 28th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from Poland (up from 58th 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 37 out of 726. Before him are Christiaan Eijkman, Willem Einthoven, Qa'a, Li Ching-Yuen, Rudolf Virchow, and Camillo Golgi. After him are James Black, Niels Ryberg Finsen, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, and Marcello Malpighi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, Paul Ehrlich ranks 7. Before him are Pope Benedict XV, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Poincaré, Prince Louis of Battenberg, and Leoš Janáček. After him are Henri La Fontaine, Paul Sabatier, Emil von Behring, Karl Kautsky, James George Frazer, and George Eastman. Among people deceased in 1915, Paul Ehrlich ranks 3. Before him are Alexander Scriabin, and Alois Alzheimer. After him are Frederick Winslow Taylor, Henry Moseley, Porfirio Díaz, Ellen G. White, Jean-Henri Fabre, Sergei Witte, Clara Immerwahr, Charles Tupper, and Wilhelm Windelband.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Paul Ehrlich ranks 50 out of 1,694. Before him are Bronisław Malinowski (1884), Klaus Kinski (1926), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Casimir III the Great (1310), Kurt Alder (1902), and Faustina Kowalska (1905). After him are Kurt Lewin (1890), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Emanuel Lasker (1868), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), Donald Tusk (1957), and Billy Wilder (1906).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Poland

Among physicians born in Poland, Paul Ehrlich ranks 3. Before him are L. L. Zamenhof (1859), and Rudolf Virchow (1821). After him are Emil von Behring (1854), Albert Sabin (1906), Alexander Bogdanov (1873), Magnus Hirschfeld (1868), Carl Wernicke (1848), Jan Jesenius (1566), Leon Pinsker (1821), Bronisława Dłuska (1865), and Robert Remak (1815).

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