STOCKHOLM--The 1939 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded today to a German Professor, Gerhard Domack, in disregard of a decree by Chancellor Adolf Hitler forbidding Germans to accept any of the Nobel awards.
Domack, who lives in Wuppertal, Germany, was awarded the prize for his discovery of Prontosil, an anti-bacterial preparation used in the treatment of various infectious diseases.
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