Ernst Peter Pick was born in Jaromer, Bohemia, (now in the Czech Republic) E. P. Pick was a student of the renowned professor Mayer. In 1917 he became assistant professor and in 1924 a full professor of pharmacology at the University of Vienna. His works in the fields of physiological chemistry, pharmacology as well as serology were all pioneering efforts. He wrote about antigens and heart pharmacology; about the pharmacology of sleeping pills and diruresis, and studies of immunity.
In 1938, as a result of the Nazi persecutions, Professor Pick immigrated to the USA. He taught as professor of pharmacology at the Columbia University, New York. He died in New York in 1960.