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hello,friends Jump to: navigation, search For other people named Paul Ehrlich, see Paul Ehrlich (disambiguation). Paul Ehrlich Paul Ehrlich.png Paul Ehrlich, c. 1908 Born 	14 March 1854 Strehlen, Lower Silesia, German Kingdom of Prussia Died 	20 August 1915 (aged 61) Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany Citizenship 	Germany Fields 	Immunology Known for 	Autoimmunity Notable awards 	Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1908)

About this sound Paul Ehrlich (help·info) (born 14 March 1854 in Strehlen near Breslau – died 20 August 1915 in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe) was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy. He invented the precursor technique to Gram staining bacteria, and the methods he developed for staining tissue made it possible to distinguish between different type of blood cells, which led to the capability to diagnose numerous blood diseases. His laboratory discovered arsphenamine (Salvarsan), the first effective medicinal treatment for syphilis, thereby initiating and also naming the concept of chemotherapy. Ehrlich popularized the concept of a "magic bullet". He also made a decisive contribution to the development of an antiserum to combat diphtheria and conceived a methodology for standardizing therapeutic serums. In 1908, he received a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his contributions to immunology.