Gerhard Domagk

Gerhard Domagk

male, deceased (1964)
Carl von Ossietzky, anti-nazi, refusal of Nobel Prize, University of Münster, bacteria, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine…streptococcus
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk (October 30, 1895 - April 24, 1964) was a German pathologist and bacteriologist and Nobel laureate. Domagk was born in...
Rebecca Lancefield

Rebecca Lancefield

female, deceased (1981)
Serologists, Serology, American, carbohydrate, streptococcus, bacteria
Rebecca Craighill Lancefield (January 5, 1895 - March 3, 1981) was a prominent American microbiologist. She is most famous for her serological...

Albert Alexander

male, deceased (1941)
British, constable, police officer, penicillin, patient, from Oxford…streptococcus
Reserve Constable Albert Alexander, the first patient to be treated with penicillin. Albert Alexander was a constable in the police force of the...
George Frederick Dick

George Frederick Dick

male, deceased (1967)
University of Chicago, World War I, bacteriologist, physician, American, scarlet fever…streptococcus
George Frederick Dick (July 21, 1881 - October 10, 1967) was an American physician and bacteriologist best known for his work with scarlet fever....
Clodomiro Picado Twight

Clodomiro Picado Twight

male, deceased (1944)
zoology, botany, coffee, costa rica, costa rican, la sorbonne…streptococcus
Born in 1887, Costa Rican Scientist Dr. Clodomiro Picado Twight, also known as Clorito Picado, was a Latin American pioneer in toxicology. He...

Martin Henry Dawson

male, deceased (1945)
Canadian of Scottish descent, Molecular biologist, penicillin, streptococcus, from Colchester County, Nova Scotia, pneumococci
Martin Henry Dawson (6 August, 1896 - 27 April, 1945) was a Canadian-born researcher who made important contributions in the fields of infectious...
Axel Holst

Axel Holst

male, deceased (1931)
norwegian, Academic, university of oslo, christiania, streptococcus, scurvy
Axel Holst (September 6, 1860 in Christiania (present day Oslo) - 1931 in Oslo) was a Norwegian professor of hygiene and bacteriology at the...
Albert Fraenkel

Albert Fraenkel

male, deceased (1938)
German, Tuberculosis, physician, internal medicine, black forest, sanatorium…Streptococcus pneumoniae
Albert Fraenkel was a German physician who helped establish "Streptococcus pneumoniae" as a cause of bacterial pneumonia and championed intravenous...
Robert Austrian

Robert Austrian

male, deceased (2007)
University of Pennsylvania, New York University, Johns Hopkins University, vaccine, physician, American…Streptococcus pneumoniae
Robert Austrian (April 12 1916 - March 25 2007)an American infectious diseases physician. Robert Austrian was along with Maxwell Finland, one of...

Frederick Griffith

male, deceased (1941)
World War I, geneticist, British, pneumonia, dna, Griffith's experiment…Streptococcus pneumoniae
Frederick Griffith (1879 - 1941) was a British medical officer. In 1928, in what is today known as Griffith's experiment, he discovered a...