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Something wrong?He turned a dye into the first antibiotic you could buy - then tested it on his own daughter when infection threatened her life.
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12. Tagung 1962 Physik; Bayrisches Frühstück Gerhard Domagk, Karl Georg v. Hevesy - W134Nr.069606b - Willy Pragher
Bad Schachen Porträt; Gerhard Domagk - W134Nr.020187b - Willy Pragher
Chemiker- 1. Reihe- Frau Virtanen, Artturi I. Virtanen, Gerhard Domagk, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hermann Staudinger, Karl Georg v. Hevesy, Frau Domagk, - LABW - Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 134 Nr. 052411c
Chemiker- Artturi I. Virtanen, Gerhard Domagk, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hermann Staudinger, Karl Georg v. Hevesy - LABW - Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 134 Nr. 052416
Chemiker- Artturi I. Virtanen, Gerhard Domagk, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hermann Staudinger; 2. Reihe- ?, Frau Hahn?, Ehepaar Granberg - LABW - Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 134 Nr. 052410a
Chemiker- Artturi I. Virtanen, Gerhard Domagk, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hermann Staudinger; Karl Georg v. Hevesy - LABW - Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 134 Nr. 052410b
Chemiker- Artturi I. Virtanen, Gerhard Domagk, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Hermann Staudinger; Karl Georg v. Hevesy, Frau Domagk, Frau Staudinger, Otto Hah - LABW - Staatsarchiv Freiburg W 134 Nr. 052411aAwards
About this person
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.
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