biography
| name: |
Wasserman, August Paul von
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pronunciation:
[vaserman]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1866–1925)
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| biography:
| Bacteriologist, born in Bamberg, SEC Germany. He studied medicine at Erlangen, Vienna, Munich, and Strasbourg universities, and worked in bacteriology at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin from 1890. He discovered a blood-serum test for syphilis in 1906 (the Wasserman reaction). |
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