Published “Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory” in Journal of Computational Chemistry — cited 26,727 times.
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Paul Ehrlich
Paul Ehrlich was a German physician and scientist who worked in the fields of hematology, immunology and antimicrobial chemotherapy. He shared the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Élie Metchnikoff "in recognition of their work on immunity". Among his foremost achievements were finding a cure for syphilis in 1909 and inventing an important modification of the technique for Gram stain…
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Born 14 March 1854 · Died 20 August 1915 · Q57089
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2010· 1 entry
Published “A consistent and accurate<i>ab initio</i>parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu” in The Journal of Chemical Physics — cited 57,241 times.
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1954· 1 entry
On the 100th anniversary of the births of Ehrlich (14 March 1854) and Emil von Behring (15 March 1854)
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1947· 2 entries
That is the nation's federal institute for vaccines and biomedicines
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After Ehrlich, its first director
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1915· 1 entry
Died 1915-08-20.
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1914· 3 entries
Ehrlich was awarded the Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh
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One of the most prominent accusers was convicted of criminal libel at a trial for which Ehrlich was called to testify
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Ehrlich signed the Manifesto of the Ninety-Three which was a defence of Germany's World War I politics and militarism
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1912· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1912).
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1911· 1 entry
Won Liebig Medal (1911).
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1910· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1910).
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A street was named after Ehrlich in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen
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1909· 3 entries
And inventing an important modification of the technique for Gram staining bacteria
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The first drug to be targeted against a specific pathogen: Salvarsan, a treatment for syphilis, which was at that time one of the most lethal and infectious diseases in Europe
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That Compound 606, Arsphenamine, effectively combatted "spirillum" spirochaetes bacteria, one of whose subspecies causes syphilis
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1908· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — in recognition of their work on immunity.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1908).
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1907· 1 entry
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1907).
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1906· 3 entries
That "the organism possesses certain contrivances by means of which the immunity reaction, so easily produced by all kinds of cells, is prevented from acting against the organism's own elements"
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Ehrlich became the director of the Georg Speyer House in Frankfurt, a private research foundation affiliated with his institute
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Intensively investigated atoxyl and had it tested by Robert Koch along with other arsenic compounds during Koch's sleeping sickness expedition of 1906/07
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1904· 1 entry
Ehrlich received a full position of honorary professor from the University of Göttingen
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1901· 2 entries
The Prussian Ministry of Finance criticised Ehrlich for exceeding his budget and as a consequence reduced his income
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For contributions to research on diphtheria
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1899· 2 entries
His institute moved to Frankfurt am Main and was renamed the Institute of Experimental Therapy (Institut für experimentelle Therapie)
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And was renamed the Royal Prussian Institute of Experimental Therapy (Königlich Preußisches Institut für Experimentelle Therapie)
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1896· 1 entry
In Berlin-Steglitz, with Ehrlich as director (which required him to cancel all his contracts with Hoechst)
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1894· 1 entry
Were successful and in August the chemical company Hoechst started to market Behring's "Diphtheria Remedy synthesised by Behring-Ehrlich"
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1891· 2 entries
Koch invited Ehrlich to work at the newly founded Institut für Infektionskrankheiten (Institute of Infectious Diseases, which became the Robert Koch Institute) at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (Humboldt University) in
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Robert Koch invited Ehrlich to join the staff at his Berlin Institute of Infectious Diseases, where in 1896 a new branch, the Institute for Serum Research and Testing (Institut für Serumforschung und Serumprüfung), was e
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1887· 1 entry
Ehrlich became an unsalaried lecturer in internal medicine (Privatdozent für Innere Medizin) at Berlin University, and in 1890 took over the tuberculosis station at a public hospital in Berlin-Moabit at Koch's request
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1886· 1 entry
Ehrlich travelled to Egypt and other countries in 1888 and 1889, in part to cure a case of tuberculosis which he had contracted in the laboratory
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1885· 1 entry
Ehrlich's monograph "The Need of the Organism for Oxygen" (Das Sauerstoffbedürfnis des Organismus – Eine farbenanalytische Studie) appeared, which he also submitted as a habilitation thesis
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1883· 1 entry
In the synagogue in Neustadt (now Prudnik, Poland)
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1881· 1 entry
Published a new urine test which could be used to distinguish different types of typhoid from simple cases of diarrhea
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1880· 1 entry
Ehrlich also studied red blood cells
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1878· 2 entries
Followed his dissertation supervisor Julius Friedrich Cohnheim to Leipzig, and obtained a doctorate with a dissertation entitled "Contributions to the Theory and Practice of Histological Staining" (Beiträge zur Theori
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Where his doctoral advisor, Julius Cohnheim, had moved
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1854· 1 entry
Born 1854-03-14.
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