Science · 1895–1964

Gerhard Domagk

German scientist who discovered the first commercially available antibiotic

Did you know?He was forced by the Nazi government to decline his Nobel Prize, only receiving the medal years after the war ended.

Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (German pronunciation:; 30 October 1895 – 24 April 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist. He is credited with the discovery of sulfonamidochrysoidine (KL730) as an antibiotic for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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