Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich and Almroth Wright

Ehrlich's days were filled with an excited, enthusiastic concentration on his scientific ideas and plans for research. He made three great contributions: (1) Invented modern cytological staining methods based on chemical affinities betwen dyes and cell structures; (2) His studies of Immunology won him a Nobel prize in 1908; (3) He invented scientific chemotherapy. In well-planned research he an...

Paul Ehrlich and the Salvarsan Silver Jubilee

The treatment of syphilis by the organic arsenical compounds is such an established part of everyday practice that it is hard for the practitioner of the present generation to realize that only a quarter of a century ago the first reports of Paul Ehrlich's great discovery were being received with a combination of scepticism and enthusiasm by the essentially conservative medical profession. Both...

The Collected Papers of Paul Ehrlich

This important volume is the first of four; the second will deal with Ehrlich's work on immunology and cancer, the third with his studies in chemotherapy, and the fourth, in addition to a bibliography and indexes, will contain tributes by Ehrlich to his teachers, supporters, and colleagues. The papers collected in the first volume describe work done by Ehrlich during the period 1877-1890, as a ...

Paul Ehrlich and his Magic bullets--revisited.

n 1940 Warner Brothers Studios released a film, Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet , which starred Edward G. Robinson (1883–1973), who was born in Romania as Emanuel Goldenberg and who—at a time when the beginning Holocaust threw its shadow over Germany—was sufficiently familiar with prejudice and discrimination to play convincingly the role of Paul Ehrlich, whose own career suffered because of open an...

Viral safety perspective from the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut in Europe.