Word: domagk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they would get nothing but pork & beans for supper, bounces beaming out of the kitchen with a big, beautiful platter of cookies. Three weeks ago the Academy, which awards Nobel Prizes in science, bestowed the 1938 and 1939 prizes in Physiology & Medicine on Corneille Heymans of Belgium and Gerhard Domagk of Germany, gave newshawks to believe that no more awards would be forthcoming this year. Apparently the Academy changed its mind. For last week it announced four more prizewinners in science...
Since Adolf Hitler forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes, Domagk has already politely refused to take the prize money (TIME, Nov. 6). Kuhn and Butenandt will probably do the same, unless they want to perform the scientific experiment of living in a concentration camp...
...prize was ticketed for Professor Gerhard Domagk of Germany, who first showed the efficacy of prontosil (forerunner of the miracle-drug sulfanilamide) in treating streptococcal infections. The Nobel committee thus serenely ignored Adolf Hitler's ban on Nobel Prizes for Germans, wrathfully decreed by the Führer after the 1935 Peace Prize was awarded to tuberculous Pacifist Carl von Ossietsky, whom the Nazis had under heel in a concentration camp. Last week Professor Domagk discreetly referred to his Government the question of what to do about his award, murmured: "Even if I don't receive the money...
Credited with the invention of this drug, which some responsible doctors last week were calling the medical discovery of the decade, were Professors Heinrich Horlein and Gerhard Domagk of the German Dye Trust. Dr. Horlein, director of the Trust's pharmaceutical research at Elberfeld, and Dr. Domagk, a chemotherapist, designed Prontosil's complex molecule of dyestuff. After Dye Trust synthetists made it. Dr. Domagk experimented on mice, found that it did not kill them, that it did cure them of streptococcic infections. Other German doctors tried the material on human beings, began to report success in 1935. Last...