Pharmacology
- Albert Szent-Györgyi and Charles Glen King identify hexuronic acid as an anti-scorbutic.
- December 25 - IG Farben file a patent application in Germany for the medical application of the first sulfonamide drug, Sulfonamidochrysoidine (KI-730; which will be marketed as Prontosil), following Gerhard Domagk's laboratory demonstration of its properties as an antibiotic.
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