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Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer

Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer
c. 1928
Born(1858-03-27)27 March 1858
Died15 September 1945(1945-09-15) (aged 87)
Bad Landek (Prussia, now Lower Silesian Voivodeship, southwestern Poland)
Known forEndotoxins discovery
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (FRS),[1] Pasteur medal
Scientific career
FieldsMicrobiology

Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer FRS[1] (27 March 1858 – 15 September 1945) was a German physician and bacteriologist. Pfeiffer was born to Otto Pfeiffer, a German pastor of the local Evangelical parish, and Natalia née Jüttner, in Treustädt, Province of Posen (Prussia), and died in Bad Landeck (Prussia, now Poland).

  1. ^ a b Fildes, P. (1956). "Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer 1858-1945". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 2: 237–247. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1956.0016. JSTOR 769487.

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