Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (
October 30,
1895 –
April 24,
1964) was a
German pathologist and
bacteriologist and Nobel laureate.Domagk was born in
Lagow,
Brandenburg, the son of a school headmaster. Until he was 14 he attended school in Sommerfeld, Brandenburg (now
Lubsko, Poland). Domagk studied
medicine at the University of
Kiel, but volunteered to serve as a soldier in
World War I, where he was wounded in December 1914, working the rest of the war as medic. After the war, he finished his studies, and worked at the
University of Greifswald, where he researched
infections caused by
bacteria. In 1925, he followed his professor
Walter Gross to the
University of Münster (WWU) and became professor there himself. He also started working at the
Bayer laboratories at
Wuppertal. The same year, he married Gertrud Strübe. Later they would have three sons and a daughter.
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