Ludwig Georg Strauss (5 July 1949 - 29 May 2013) was a German nuclear medicine physician and professor of

radiology Radiology ( ) is the medical discipline that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide their treatment, within the bodies of humans and other animals. It began with radiography (which is why its name has a root referring to radiat ...

at the

University of Heidelberg } Heidelberg University, officially the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, (german: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; la, Universitas Ruperto Carola Heidelbergensis) is a public research university in Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, ...

Biography

Strauss studied medicine from 1969 to 1975 at the

Justus Liebig University University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...

Gießen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...

and mathematics from 1973 to 1975 at the same university, receiving his medical degree in 1978. His doctoral thesis was on “Vergleichende Untersuchung verschiedener Radio-in-vitro-Tests zur Beurteilung der Schildrüsenfunktion unter Berücksichtigung mehrerer Parameter”. Strauss was born in

Worms, Germany Worms () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt am Main. It had about 82,000 inhabitants . A pre-Roman foundation, Worms is one of the oldest cities in northern Europe. It wa ...

. He died on 29 May 2013 due to cancer.

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External links

List of Professor Dr. Strauss' PubMed publicationsCitations in google scholarList of Professor Dr. Strauss' publications in ResearchGate
{{DEFAULTSORT:Strauss, Ludwig G. 2013 deaths 1949 births German nuclear medicine physicians