Thursday, August 25, 2005

Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich was a German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize for Medicine. He worked in hematology, immunology, and chemotherapy. He is noted for coining the term "chemotherapy," predicting autoimmune disorders, and developing the concept of the "magic bullet" to fight disease, as well as the first antibiotic drug. He used arsenic to fight syphilis.