Emil Adolf von Behring
-He was a German Physiologist
-He received the fist Nobel Peace Prize in Physiologist or Medicine in 1901.
-Himself along with Kitasato Shibassaburo and Emily Roux created a medicine to help cure diseases.
-They developed a serum therapy (sometimes known as blood serum, which is basically the plasma minus the stuff that makes blood clot), that helped with diphtheria and tetanus
-This was important because these 2 diseases were the two leading causes of death during the war.
-He also tried to create a cure for tuberculosis but it didn't work on humans
-Died on March 31st , 1917 at age 63
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