Gerhard Domagk
German pathologist and bacteriologist
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.
He is credited with the discovery of sulfonamidochrysoidine as an antibiotic for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Wikipedia
Born: October 30, 1895, Łagów, Poland
Died: April 24, 1964 (age 68 years), Burgberg, Giengen, Germany
Known for: Discovery of sulfonamides such as Prontosil as antibiotics
Education: University of Kiel and University of Münster
Parents: Paul Domagk and Martha Reimer
Awards: Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh (1939), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1939), Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1956), and more
Children: One daughter and three sons