Emil Adolf von Behring (Nobel 1901)

Emil Adolf von Behring Hansdorf born (town of the former East Prussia) on March 15, 1854 (bacteriologist) was the winner of the first Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1901. He entered the Military Medical Academy in Berlin in 1874,  graduating in 1878 and passing the state exam in 1880. He worked as a military surgeon.

Performed work practices on issues related to communicable diseases. In 1889 he left the army to join as an assistant to Robert Koch Institute of Hygiene of the University of Berlin. In 1891 he moved to the Institute of Infectious Diseases, led by Koch himself. He taught at the University of Halle in 1894 and, in 1895, director of the Institute of Hygiene of Marburg,  until his death on March 31,1917.