Harald zur Hausen - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2008
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Harald zur Hausen

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 2008
for his discovery of human papilloma viruses causing cervical cancer
Citizenship
GermanyGermany
Languages
German, English
date of birth
3/11/1936
place of birth
Gelsenkirchen
date of death
5/29/2023
place of death
Heidelberg
Lived
87 years
occupation
  • Nobel Prize winner
  • virologist
  • oncologist
  • university teacher
  • physician
field of work
  • virology
educated at
  • Heidelberg University
  • University of Bonn
  • University of Hamburg
  • University of Düsseldorf
employer
  • Heidelberg University
  • University of Freiburg
  • University of Würzburg
  • University of Erlangen–Nuremberg
  • University of Pennsylvania
work location
  • Freiburg im Breisgau
member of
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 2009
  • Academia Europaea
    • start time: 1990
  • German Academy of Sciences at Berlin
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
    • start time: 1986
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