Paul Ehrlich

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1908
Nobel co-recipient Ilya Mechnikov

Physician, Scientist. Immunologist, Hematology pioneer. Founded Chemotherapy. Classified stains. Stained tissues, blood cell granules, tubercle bacillus. Standardized sera. Idea: Drugs’ chemical constitution related to action, affinity for cells against which directed.

"Schwann established cell as biological unit. Concept of cell is axis around which whole modern science of life revolves"

Honoring Paul Ehrlich

The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany

The Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize

Ehrlich's reagent

Ehrlich crater on moon, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU), Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN), USGS Astrogeology Science Center, NASA

Commemorative plaque at Bergstraße 96 in Berlin-Steglitz, where Ehrlich lived and worked from 1890 to 1899. Berlin memorial plaque, Paul Ehrlich. Author: OTFW, Berlin. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Paul Ehrlich, German banknote of the fourth series; without hologram, 1989. Source: Wellcome Images