a German physician and scientist. The methods he developed made it possible to distinguish between types of blood cells, which led to the ability to diagnose many blood diseases
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Born
14 March 1854 Strehlen, Lower Silesia, Prussia (now Strzelin, Poland )
Died
20 August 1915 (aged 61) Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany
Known for
Chemotherapy, Immunology
Fields
Immunology
Awards
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1908) Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh (1914)
Spouse(s)
Hedwig Pinkus (1864–1948) (m. 1883; 2 children)
adultbasic
Germany
Children
Stephanie and Marianne
Citizenship
German
era
1800+
Notable students
Hans Schlossberger
