The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901

Emil Adolf von Behring

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 was awarded to Emil Adolf von Behring "for his work on serum therapy, especially its application against diphtheria, by which he has opened a new road in the domain of medical science and thereby placed in the hands of the physician a victorious weapon against illness and deaths"

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