While an assistant surgeon in Poznan, this scientist became interested in disinfectants like iodoform.
While an assistant surgeon in Poznan, this scientist became interested in disinfectants like iodoform. Unlike Koch, he believed that the forms of tuberculosis in humans and cattle were identical. Although he was unable to develop a tuberculosis antitoxin, his recommendation to disinfect milk was an important public health measure. FTP, who is this German who received an Iron Cross during WWI for the tetanus vaccine he had developed, and who was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901?
While an assistant surgeon in Poznan, this scientist became interested in disinfectants like iodoform.
Emil von Behring