The one I
admire in my field is the great German doctor and bacteriologist, Paul Ehrlich.
He was not a pharmaceutical chemist but he made important contributions in the
field of pharmacology. For me he is a very important person and I admire him
because he managed to make a breakthrough in medicine and introduced the use of
new concepts that are still used today.
He was born
in 1854 in Prussia, the only son of a middle-class Jewish family,
intellectually curious. His cousin, 9 years older, worked as a chemist and it
was he who made him interested in science.
In his work
is the basis and inspiration for the development of multiple drugs used to save
lives. The magic bullets, which when firing would hit only the disease and not
the patient, and their selective affinity served as the basis for the
development of antibiotics and, more recently, of antitumor drugs and cytotoxic
and radioactive agents that can be selectively labeled with monoclonal
antibodies .
It should
also be noted that the German doctor was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine
and created the first effective cure for syphilis.
