GERHARD DOMAGK

Gerhard Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist who reported in 1935 that prontosil (a red dye used for staining leather) was active against pathogenic Staphylococci and Streptococci in mice. It was later that the two French scientists Jacques and Therese Trefonel discovered in the same year that prontosil was broken down within the body […]