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Emil Adolf von Behring ( March 15 , 1854 – March 31 , 1917 ) was born at Hansdorf , Eylau, Germany (as Emil Adolf Behring). 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 would hold for the rest of his life. Behring 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. Behring died at Marburg , Germany, on March 31 , 1917 however, his name lives 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 . |
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