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Stephan Tanneberger

1935 – 2018

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Wikipedia Summary

Stephan Tanneberger was a German oncologist and chemist who held leading positions in cancer research and therapy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), serving as director of the Zentralinstitut für Krebsforschung of the Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR from 1974 until 1990. He left Germany in 1991 to work in the field of palliative care for cancer patients in Italy as well as in various countries in the Third World. In 2005, he founded a Center for Peace Work in Anklam in northeast Germany.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
December 27, 1935
Date of death
March 5, 2018
Field and occupation
lékař, onkolog
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