Paul Ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich was a german biologist, and scientist who had successfully developed a cure for syphilis.(Syphilis is a disease that is highly contagious through sexual contact, which is a subtle disease, and can be life threatening once active). In spring of 1910, Paul Ehrlich's proved successful as he had cured a whole spectrum of diseases, in which he had called salvarsan, or the the nickname he had like to call it (the magic bullet). He used many chemicals that were considered toxic, (such as it

Paul Ehrlich is a German Jewish medical scientist best known for finding the first most effective treatment for syphilis for which he got the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1908 with his accomplice Élie Metchnikoff. Paul ehrlich made huge commitments to comprehension cancer, including building up a strain of mouse tumor cells known as Ehrlich ascites cells that are still utilized as a part of growth exploration. Ehrlich's work with the selectivity of staining dyes for particular cells

discoveries and progressions being made. There are many influential people who have allowed the field of medicine to be where it is now. But thanks to Paul Ehrlich, we know the effect of medicine on disease causing microorganisms. With the help of his discovery, cures for said diseases have been made with this realization. Firstly, Paul Ehrlich was born on March 14, 1854 to a Jewish family. His mother's cousin was the famous pathologist Carl Weigert. He was introduced to the technique of staining

This New York Times article discusses the ideas of Paul Ehrlich on population and the environment. Although Ehrlich often resorted to dramatizations and apocalypse-type imagery in his writings, they often had some very poignant objective. Ehrlich discussed the “Population Bomb”, the idea that population was rising so rapidly, that widespread famine would soon be an issue for millions of people. As we saw, no such event occurred, but Ehrlich still firmly believes measures should be taken to limit

military all thought that the biggest threat to mankind was the rise in humans. They came up with many reasons, but it was agreed at the time that drastic measures would be needed to control the growth. The author of the book, “The Population Bomb”, Paul Ehrlich pointed out the parents of Indian and Chinese parents would continue having daughters until a boy was born. His argument was to offer them a guaranteed that they would have a son with genetic manipulation. This would help to take the first step

In 1885, a German pathologist and bacteriologist name Gustav Hauser was credit for discovering the genus Proteus. He also discovered and named its three species Proteus vulgaris, Proteus mirabilis and Proteus zenkeri. Hauser was born in July 1856 in the town of Nordlingen, Germany. In the University of Nuremberg in Bavaria, he became an assistant to Friedrich A. Zenker in the pathology department. Friedrich A. Zenker, a well known pathologist and physician, He was renowned for his discovery of

According to Ehrenreich, ‘no job is truly unskilled” ( Ehrenreich 194). Ehrenreich’s three proudest moments included finishing her tasks fast enough to help others. the breakthrough at Wal-Mart where she believed she could make $7.75 if she kept quiet, and specifically the day at Woodcrest. Ehrenreich claimed it was a moment “I’ll bask for the rest of my life” where she “fed the locked Alzheimer’s ward” all by herself, all while receiving smiles from others (Ehrenreich 194). Ehrenreich was proud

The Simon-Ehrlich wager was all about this idea of Malthusian catastrophe (Regis, 1997). The idea is that because of population growth we are running out of resources and we will eventually exhaust them all and die out. Julian Simon the so call cornucopian doom slayer challenged the Malthusian believer Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Simon told Ehrlich that he could pick any-raw material and and any date in the future. If Simon was correct the eventually price of these resources would decrease or not change

Baird; “Population Control: How Can There Possibly Be Too Many of Us?” by Frank Furedi; and “The Population Bomb Revisited,” by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich. Baird and Furedi concur that the concern over population growth has been around since mathematician Thomas Malthus, in 1798, warned that overpopulation could lead to “the collapse

Population Growth in Perspective Introduction To anyone even remotely acquainted with the situation, the ever-expanding world population can easily be a cause of grave concern. Indeed, the simple realization that the total world population will most likely be doubling within the next century may seem to imply catastrophe. Considering the strain our current huge population puts on the world, is it not natural to presume that two times our number will spell disaster? While this is the view