Ehrlich

American  

[eyr-likh] / ˈeɪr lɪx /

noun

1. Paul 1854–1915, German physician, bacteriologist, and chemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1908.

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Ehrlich British  

/ ˈeːrlɪç /

noun

1. Paul (paul). 1854–1915, German bacteriologist, noted for his pioneering work in immunology and chemotherapy and for his discovery of a remedy for syphilis: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1908

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Ehrlich Scientific  

/ âr′lĭk /

1. German bacteriologist who was a pioneer in the study of the blood and the immune system, and in the development of drugs to fight specific disease-causing agents. He discovered a compound that was effective in combating sleeping sickness as well as a drug, called salvarsan, that cured syphilis.

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Example Sentences

To Paul Ehrlich, and the radical environmentalists who revered him, they were at best an afterthought.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Still, comparing Ehrlich to Malthus is something of an insult to the latter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Ehrlich sent Simon a check for $576.07 and wisely declined the offer to reup the bet, which he would have lost in 2000 as well.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

In 1990 Simon won the bet and Ehrlich paid up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

“Life...is a chemical incident,” Paul Ehrlich, the chemist, had once said, and biochemists, true to form, had begun to break open cells and characterize the constituent “living chemicals” into classes and functions.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee