Alfred Bertheim
Alfred Bertheim · Science & Medicine
Chemist who co-developed Salvarsan, the first effective syphilis drug
1879, Berlin, Germany — 1914, Berlin, Germany
Berlin · Frankfurt
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Alfred Bertheim was a German chemist who, working with Paul Ehrlich at the Georg-Speyer-Haus in Frankfurt, synthesized Salvarsan (arsphenamine) in 1907 — the first effective treatment for syphilis and often called the first modern chemotherapeutic drug. He also wrote a standard handbook of organic arsenic compounds and died in an accident in 1914. He is documented as being of Jewish background in Jewish biographical sources.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
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Chemist who co-developed Salvarsan, the first effective syphilis drug
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry
