Paul Ehrlich
Jewish-German physician and scientist (1854-1915)
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Lived 1854–1915, aged 61
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Updated 2026-06-08
He chased what he called a "magic bullet" — a chemical that could kill disease without killing the patient — and in 1909 he found it, delivering the first real cure for syphilis and opening the age of chemotherapy.
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Paul Ehrlich was born in Germany on 14 March 1854 and built his early career on staining techniques that let doctors see blood cells clearly for the first time, turning diagnosis of blood diseases from guesswork into science. His work on immunity earned him the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Élie Metchnikoff, and he developed critical methods for standardising antiserum against diphtheria. But the breakthrough that reset medicine came from his laboratory's discovery of arsphenamine — Salvarsan — the first antimicrobial drug and the first treatment that actually worked…
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