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Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist.
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science · German bacteriologist (1895–1964) · biochemist · physician · university teacher · pathologist · chemist · bacteriologist · scientist · also Gerhard Domagk, Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk, Domagk
Born 30 October 1895 · Died 24 April 1964 · Q57192
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2020· 2 entries
Westfälische Nachrichten: Sophia Lechler „verfilmte“ das Leben des Nobelpreisträgers Gerhard Domagk
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2016· 1 entry
uni: Gerhard-Domagk-Preis für Dr. Thomas Grünewald
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2014· 1 entry
idw: Universitätsmedizin ehrt Gerhard Domagk – Ohne ihn gäbe es kein Penicillin
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2013· 1 entry
Ärzteblatt: Gerhard Domagk: Eine bahnbrechende Erfindung
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2009· 1 entry
idw: Vor 70 Jahren erhielt Gerhard Domagk den Nobelpreis für Medizin
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2002· 1 entry
Ärzteblatt: Gerhard Domagk. Der erste Sieger über die Infektionskrankheiten
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1964· 1 entry
Died 1964-04-24.
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1961· 1 entry
And Gerhard-Domagk-Institut für Pathologie (Gerhard Domagk Institute of Pathology) is created in the University of Münster
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1959).
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1956).
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Reported the successful development of an anticancer drug which he designated E-39 (E for ethylenimine quinones)
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1954· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Health (1954).
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1952· 2 entries
Was elected chairman of the German Society of Pathology
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The Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste in 1952, the Spanish Civil de Sanidad in 1953, the del Lobertador from the Republic of Venezuela in 1957, the Medal of the Rising Sun 2nd Class from Japan in 1960, the Gra
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1951· 1 entry
Was one of seven Nobel Laureates who attended the 1st Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
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1947· 2 entries
Domagk was finally able to receive his Nobel Prize, but not the monetary portion of the prize due to the time that had elapsed
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After the fall of Nazi Germany, he was officially given the Nobel diploma and delivered the Nobel lecture
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1941· 1 entry
Domagk was awarded the Medaglia Paterno (Rome) by the Kingdom of Italy and also the Von-Klebelsberg-Medal and Prize by the Kingdom of Hungary
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1940· 1 entry
Awarded Aronson Prize (1940).
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1939· 2 entries
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1939).
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Domagk was selected by the Nobel Foundation to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of Prontosil as an antibiotic, the first commercially available drug effective against bacterial infectio
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1937· 3 entries
Won Emil Fischer Medal (1937).
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Awarded Fresenius Prize (1937).
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Adolf Hitler made an official decree that prohibited German nationals from accepting Nobel Prizes
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1935· 3 entries
Domagk's only daughter, Hildegarde, injured herself and contracted a streptococcal infection
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Colebrook repeated the experiments on mice using both soluble Streptozon and the less soluble form and found that Streptozon was more effective but only in specific bacteria that caused puerperal fever
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Which had angered the Nazi German government
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1932· 1 entry
Domagk discovered the potential use of benzyldimethyldodecylammonium chloride as a powerful antimicrobial agent
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1931· 1 entry
Indicated poor antibacterial effect against bacterial cultures
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1925· 1 entry
Married Gertrude Strube, at the time an advisor to the German Chamber of Commerce in Basel
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1924· 1 entry
In Virchows Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin (now Virchows Archiv) was assessed as a worthy criterion for promotion to a full professor
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1923· 1 entry
Met Walter Gross, the Director of the Institute of Pathology at the University of Greifswald, at the conference of German Society of Pathology in Leipzig
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1900· 1 entry
His father was transferred to Sommerfeld (now Lubsko, Poland)
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-10-30.
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