In 1901, Emil Adolf von Behring won the Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Date of Birth: 15 March 1854.
Died: 31 March 1917.
Nationality: German.
Country: Germany.
Education: Doctoral Degree in Medicine Friedrich-Wilhelms-Institut, the Prussian army’s medical college, in Berlin.
Known as: Diphtheria antitoxin/serum.
Profession: German Physiologist.
Awards: Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1894), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1901).
Fields: Physiology, Immunology, Ophthalmology
