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Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (30 October 1895 – 24 April 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist. He is credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730) – the first commercially available antibiotic (marketed under the brand name Prontosil) – for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. ...
Gerhard Domagk (Lagow, 1895 - Burgberg, 1964) Médico alemán. Estudió en Kiel, fue profesor de la Universidad de Münster y director del Instituto de Bacteriología y Patología de Elberfeld. En 1927 fue nombrado director de investigación en el laboratorio de bacteriología de la I. G. Farbenindustrie de Wuppertal. ...
Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) had been part of Robert Koch's research team. In 1909, he developed the first chemical cure for a disease. This was called Salvarsan 606 and was used to cure the sexually transmitted disease of syphilis. Ehrlich called his new drug a 'magic bullet' because it homed in on and destroyed the harmful bacteria. ...
Domagk’s discovery of the antibacterial properties of Prontosil won him the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. However, the Nobel committee had angered the German political authorities by awarding the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize to Carl von Ossietzky, an outspoken German pacifist. Under the grip of Hitler and the Nazi Party, German citizens were forbidden to accept the Nobel ...
Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg, the son of a school headmaster. Until he was 14, he attended school in Sommerfeld (now Lubsko, Poland). Domagk studied medicine at the University of Kiel, but volunteered to serve as a soldier in World War I, where he was wounded in December 1914, working the rest of the war as a medic. After ...
In the 1920s and 1930s common bacterial infections ran rampant in Europe and the United States. Staphylococcal and streptococcal infections loomed large as killers, along with pneumococcal and tubercular infections. In this environment minor scratches and scrapes could prove deadly, and pneumonia and tuberculosis killed even young adults. Introduced in 1935 by Gerhard Domagk (1895–1964), sulfa drugs, or sulfonamides, all ...
In 1923 he moved to Greifswald and there became, in 1924, University Lecturer in Pathological Anatomy. In 1925 he held the same post in the University of Münster and in 1958 became professor of this subject. During the years 1927-1929 he was, however, given leave of absence from the University of Münster to do research in the laboratories of the ...
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