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May 5, 2021 26 mins

This episode covers the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded to Gerhard Domagk. The Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute chose to give Domagk the award “for the discovery of the antibacterial effects of prontosil.” Topics include the process Domagk used to discover prontosil, the fashion industry’s largest dye company, and Adolf Hitler.

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