Emil von Behring - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1901
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Emil von Behring

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1901
for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths.
Citizenship
German ReichGerman ReichKingdom of PrussiaKingdom of Prussia
Languages
German
date of birth
3/15/1854
place of birth
Ławice
date of death
3/31/1917
place of death
Marburg
Lived
63 years
occupation
  • immunologist
  • bacteriologist
  • non-fiction writer
  • university teacher
  • physiologist
  • physician
  • scientist
field of work
  • immunology
  • medicine
  • bacteriology
educated at
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
employer
  • University of Marburg
  • Charité
  • Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
work location
  • Marburg
  • Berlin
member of
  • Germania Marburg
  • Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg
  • Pépinière-Corps
  • Academy of Science for Public Utility
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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