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Abstract. Gerhard Domagk, who died on 24 April 1964, became a notable figure in the world of medical science by his reporting (1935) an experiment which made a landmark in the control of bacterial infections. He showed that mice, which usually died within a day or two of an intraperitoneal injection of a culture of streptococci, could survive ...
Gerhard Domagk. (1895—1964) Quick Reference. (1895–1964) German bacteriologist and pathologist awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1939 for his discovery of the antibacterial effects of Prontosil, the first sulphonamide drug. Domagk was born in Brandenburg (now in Poland) and trained in medicine at the University of Kiel.
The Igefa laboratory department in which this research was carried out is under Professor Gerhard Domagk, who planned and directed the investigations involving experiments on animals. The chemists Dr. Mietzsch and Dr. Klarer, working in close collaboration with Domagk, provided various chemical preparations for these investigations.
