Paul Ehrlich

Biography

Paul Ehrlich was born on 14 March 1854 in Strehlen, Silesia, Prussia (now Strzelin, Poland). A physician and scientist, he made foundational contributions to hematology, immunology and chemotherapy. He shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on immunity and died on 20 August 1915 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany. German Jewish physician and scientist, pioneer of immunology and chemotherapy, and joint recipient of the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In Jewish World Records, Paul Ehrlich is connected to the record “First Jewish Person to Win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,” based on the stored achievement of First Jewish person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Paul Ehrlich became the first Jewish person to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine when he shared the 1908 prize with Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov for their work on immunity.

Public links

• NobelPrize.org
• sciencehistory.org
• junges-museum-frankfurt.de