Emil von Behring

"The book not only is a complete biography of von Behring, but also provides us with a most interesting insight into the early days of immunology as a nascent discipline, when one discovery quickly followed another, and efforts were being made to fit them into a unified theory. Von Behring’s contribution to this process cannot be overestimated."—Stanislaw Dubiski, Journal of the American Medical Association

"[A]n important study of a major scientist. Its value is increased by translations of several of Behring’s important papers, most presented in English for the first time."—W. F. Bynum, Europe: Early Modern and Modern

"[A] reliable and insightful glimpse of what is undoubtedly one of the most complex stories in modern medicine."—Alfred I. Tauber, New England Journal of Medicine