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# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:36:34.372Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Gerhard Domagk was working as a pathologist at the University of Münster when IG Farben brought him to Elberfeld in 1927 to screen chemical compounds for therapeutic use. He tested a benzene derivative synthesised by Fritz Mietzsch and Joseph Klarer — an azo dye carrying a sulphonamide side chain — and found it killed Streptococcus pyogenes. In 1935 his daughter Hildegarde injured herself and developed a streptococcal infection; facing amputation, Domagk used the compound and cured her. The drug went to market as Prontosil, the first commercially available antibiotic. He was awarded the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but the Nazi government barred him from accepting it. In 1947 he finally received the diploma and delivered his lecture.