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

The international research team, which included the late Professor Paul Ehrlich, analyzed historical population records and used ecological growth models to study changes in both population size and growth rates over time.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

Ehrlich displayed a total lack of confidence in man’s ability to improvise, innovate and invent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Making spectacularly wrong predictions of imminent catastrophe became something of a habit for Ehrlich over the decades.

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

“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