Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Emil von Behring for development of a diphtheria antitoxin

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In 1901, the first Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Emil von Behring for his work on the development of a diphtheria antitoxin (later known as antiserum).

In 1900, Emil von Behring had introduced serum from immune horses as a method to cure and prevent diphtheria.

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