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Gerhard Domagk , 1895-1964, German chemist and pathologist. A teacher successively at the universities of Greifswald and Münster, he became (1927) director of research at the I. G. Farbenindustrie laboratory at Wuppertal. Because of a Nazi decree he was obliged to decline the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In 1947 he received a gold medal in lieu of the prize money. The award was made for his discovery of the efficacy of prontosil, the forerunner of the sulfa drugs, in treating streptococcal infections.

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Domagk, Gerhard (1895–1964) German biochemist who went to work for I.G. Farbenindustrie to investigate new drugs. In 1935 he discovered the antibacterial properties of a dye, Prontosil, which became the first sulpha drug (see sulphonamides). He was offered the 1939 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine but was forced by Hitler to refuse; he finally received the award in 1947.

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