Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.
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Tube of Prontosil tablets available in Germany during 1935–1950
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded yearly by the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute for outstanding discoveries in physiology or medicine. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes
Gerhard Domagk
…pathologist and bacteriologist. He is credited with the discovery of sulfonamidochrysoidine (KL730) as an antibiotic for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The drug became the first commercially available antibiotic and marketed under the brand name Prontosil. While working in the pathology department of…
Nobel was interested in experimental physiology and set up his own laboratories.
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Alexander Fleming's 1945 Nobel Prize medal for Physiology or Medicine on display at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Emil von Behring received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.