Word: domagk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Gerhard Domagk, 68, German chemist who in 1932 discovered that sulfonamides cured infection, thereby creating the first "wonder drugs"; of a heart attack; in Konigsfeld, West Germany. Domagk was research director for I. G. Farben when he found some textile dyes stopped infections in mice, successfully applied a dye to his daughter's infected finger, later isolated the active ingredient, a sulfa compound he called prontosil-an achievement that won him a 1939 Nobel Prize, which Hitler, piqued with the Nobel committee at the time, forced him to refuse...