Everything about Emil Adolf Von Behring totally explained
Emil Adolf von Behring, born
Adolf Emil Behring (
March 15,
1854 –
March 31,
1917) was a
German physiologist who received the 1901
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Biography
Behring was born at
Hansdorf,
Kreis Rosenberg,
Province of Prussia.
Between 1874 and 1878 he studied
medicine at the Army Medical College in
Berlin. He was mainly a military doctor and then became Professor of
Hygienics within the Faculty of Medicine at the
University of Marburg (against the initial strenuous opposition of the faculty council), a position he'd hold for the rest of his life.
Behring was the discoverer of
diphtheria antitoxin and attained a great reputation by that means and by his contributions to the study of immunity. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901 for developing a
serum therapy against
diphtheria (this was worked on with
Emile Roux) and
tetanus. The former had been a scourge of the population, especially children, whereas the other was a leading cause of death in wars, killing the wounded. At the
International Tuberculosis Congress in
1905 he announced that he'd discovered "a substance proceeding from the virus of tuberculosis." This substance, which he designated "T C", plays the important part in the immunizing action of Professor Behring's "bovivaccine", which prevents
bovine tuberculosis.
Behring died at
Marburg,
Hesse-Nassau, on
March 31,
1917. His name survives on in
Dade Behring, the world's largest company dedicated solely to clinical diagnostics, in the Behring-Werke in Marburg, and in the Emil von Behring - Prize of the University of Marburg.
His
Nobel Prize medal, is now kept on display at the
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in
Geneva.
Partial list of publications
- Die Blutserumtherapie (1892)
- Bekämpfung der Infektionskrankheiten (1894)
- Beiträge zur experimentellen Therapie (1906)
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