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Facts

Born March 15, 1854 • Prussia
Died March 31, 1917 (aged 63) • Marburg • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1901)
Subjects Of Study antitoxin • diphtheria antitoxin

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Emil von Behring, 1914.
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