Word: domagk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Least known are the medical uses of wetting agents, first revealed in 1935 by Germany's Gerhard Domagk, who was awarded but could not accept a Nobel Prize (1939) for his work with prontosil (forerunner of sulfanilamide). In 1939 Dr. Benjamin Frank Miller of the University of Chicago was looking for an agent which would carry germicides into every nook & cranny of the teeth. Paging through LIFE one day, he ran across a picture of American Cyanamid's famous ducks being scuttled with its "Aerosol" wetting agent. Miller tried the same product on teeth, found that it penetrated...
...Jules Dubos of the Rockefeller Institute may possibly some day take rank, along with Gerhard Domagk of Germany and other pioneers who gave the world sulfanilamide. as a great benefactor of chemotherapeutical medicine. Starting with a hunch that there must be agents in the soil capable of breaking up almost anything organic, piling up experiments year after year. Dr. Dubos recently told how he isolated from soil bacilli a substance called "gramicidin," which-in experimental animals-kills pneumococci of five kinds, streptococci, diphtheria bacilli, and other "gram-positive" (blue-staining) germs, possibly including the tubercle bacillus (TIME, April...