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Apr 10, 2017 · Remembering Emil von Behring, one of the founders of immunology, 100 years after his death. ... PowerPoint slide. Full size image. ... Microbiology newsletter — what matters in microbiology ...
- Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
- Kaufmann@mpiib-berlin.mpg.de
- 2017
Feb 28, 2017 · He was the first to be honored by the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1901 for the successful therapy of diphtheria and tetanus, which he had developed from the bench to the bed. He also contributed to the foundation of immunology, since his therapy was based on passive immunization with specific antisera.
- Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
- 10.1128/mBio.00117-17
- 2017
- mBio. 2017 Jan-Feb; 8(1): e00117-17.
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Mar 27, 2024 · Emil von Behring was a German bacteriologist who was one of the founders of immunology. In 1901 he received the first Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on serum therapy, particularly for its use in the treatment of diphtheria.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Now you can better understand Behring's most important contribution to microbiology. While at the Institute for Hygiene, Behring began to study the interactions between blood serum and...
Download PDF. Portrait of Emil von Behring (1854-1917), a German physiologist who worked to prove the possibility of transferring immunity against the toxins of tetanus and Diptheria. Behring won the 1901 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the development of serum therapies.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901. Emil von Behring. Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1901. Serum Therapy in Therapeutics and Medical Science. Serum therapy in the form in which it finds application in the treatment of diphtheria patients is an antitoxic or detoxicating curative method.
