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Ehrlich Born 14 March 1854 Strehlen, Upper Silesia, Germany Died
20 August 1915 Bad Homburg, Germany Nationality German Fields
Immunology Institutions Goettingen University, Königliches
Institut für experimentelle Therapie Alma mater Universities of
Breslau, Strassburg, Leipzig Notable awards Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine (1908)  Paul Ehrlich (14 March 1854 – 20
August 1915) was a German doctor.[1] He won the 1908 Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine, with Ilya Mechnikov, for finding out
how immunity fights disease.[1]  Ehrlich directed a research
program which discovered the first treatment for syphilis which
worked. It was a compound of arsenic which went by the trade
name of Salvarsan.[2][3] He studied trypanosomiasis and other
protozoal diseases. He produced trypan red, which was (as his
Japanese assistant Shiga showed) effective against
trypanosomes.[1]  He invented a