Domagk was awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology /Medicine “for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil” in 1939. Domagk discovered prontosil – “the first commercially available antibiotic ...

Without any real understanding of how sulfa-drugs overcome infections, doctors have been freely using them ever since Dr. Gerhard Domagk of Germany discovered prontosil, forerunner of sulfanilamide, ...

PROF. GERHARD DOMAGK, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for 1939, is the pathologist to the medical and biological research laboratories of the Bayer Company of ...

Even today, being stricken with pneumonia, meningitis or strep throat is serious, but in the early 20th century these bacterial infections were killers. Then in 1937 a powerful new cure arrived: ...

THE key event in the emergence of antibiotics, says Thomas Hager, was not the introduction of penicillin in the 1940s but the discovery of sulphanilamide, a synthetic antimicrobial drug, a decade ...

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