Domagk

American  

[doh-mahk] / ˈdoʊ mɑk /

noun

1. Gerhard 1895–1964, German physician: declined 1939 Nobel Prize at the demand of Nazi government.

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Domagk British  

/ ˈdoːmak /

noun

1. Gerhard (ˈɡeːrhart). 1895–1964, German biochemist: Nobel prize for medicine (1939) for isolating sulphanilamide for treating bacterial infections

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Example Sentences

In 1932, a German pathologist and bacteriologist, Gerhard Domagk, discovered that a chemical called prontosil protected against bacterial infections in mice.

From Slate

Domagk’s 6-year-old daughter would probably have died of a strep infection had she not been treated with sulfa, one of the first in a parade of unprecedented medical resurrections.

From New York Times

Less well known is Gerhard Domagk, the German chemist whose dogged benchwork in the 1930s created the first sulfa drugs.

From New York Times

In the 1930s, the microbiologist Gerhard Domagk found that prontosil could tackle infection by the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes in mice2.

From Nature

In 1932, German biochemist Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk discovered that the compound sulfanilamide could vanquish deadly strains of bacteria, like the streptococcus in his lab mice and in his first human test subject, his gravely ill young daughter.

From Scientific American