biography
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Domagk, Gerhard (Johannes Paul)
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pronunciation:
[dohmak]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1964)
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| biography:
| Biochemist, born in Lagow, Germany. He studied at Kiel, and taught at Greifswald and Münster, before becoming director of the I G Farbenindustrie Laboratory for Experimental Pathology and Bacteriology in 1927. He discovered the chemotherapeutic properties of sulphanilamide, and thus ushered in a new age in chemotherapy. In 1939, on instruction from the German government, he refused the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. |
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