Paul Ehrlich

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Paul Ehrlich
For the scientist best known for thoughts on overpopulation, see Paul R. Ehrlich. Paul Ehrlich (March 141854 –  August 201915) was a German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is noted for his work in hematologyimmunology, and chemotherapy. Ehrlich predicted autoimmunity calling it "horror autotoxicus". He coined the term "chemotherapy" and popularized the concept of a "magic bullet". He is credited with the first empirical observation of the blood-brain barrier and the development of the first antibiotic drug in modern medicine.
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Paul Ehrlich
Noun
1. German bacteriologist who found a `magic bullet' to cure syphilis and was a pioneer in the study of immunology (1854-1915)
(synonym) Ehrlich
(hypernym) bacteriologist



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