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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

1901 First Nobel Prize in Medicine

Emil von Behring
Library of Congress

 


EMIL ADOLF VON BEHRING


1901 Nobel Laureate in Medicine
    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.
Background
  • 1854-1917
  • Place of birth: Hansdorf (Germany)
  • Residence: Germany
  • Affiliation: Halle University (Professor of Hygiene, 1894-1895); Marburg University (from 1895)

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