Gerhard Domagk
1895-1964
German pathologist and chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1939 for his discovery that a red, sulfur-containing dye called Prontosil was a safe and effective treatment for stre...
Read more
Gerhard Domagk was a biochemist who discovered sulfonamide therapy (sulfa drugs) for bacterial infections. Prior to his work, only a few chemical compounds had been found effective against these infec...
Read more
Gerhard Domagk discovered the first synthetic drug that could be used to battle the effects of many bacterial diseases. He was born in Lagow, Brandenburg (which is now Poland, but was then Germany) on...
Read more
Gerhard Domagk was a biochemist who discovered sulfonamide therapy for bacterial infections. Prior to his work, only a few chemical compounds had been found effective against these infections, and mos...
Read more
Gerhard Domagk discovered the first synthetic drug that could be used to battle the effects of many bacterial diseases. He was born in Lagow, Brandenburg (which is now Poland, but was then Germany) on...
Read more
Gerhard Domagk discovered the first synthetic drug that could be used to battle the effects of many bacterial diseases. He was born in Lagow, Brandenburg (which is now Poland, but was then Germany) on...
Read more
The German bacteriologist and experimental pathologist Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (1895-1964) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the antibacterial effects of ...
Read more