- Arnold Graffi
Dr. Arnold Graffi (
June 19 ,1910 –January 30 ,2006 )was a pioneering German doctor in the area of experimentalcancer research.Graffi was born in the Saxon town of Bistritz (Bistriţa) in
Transylvania , then part ofAustria-Hungary . He studied medicine at Marburg, Leipzig, and Tübingen before receiving his doctorate at theCharité inBerlin . Graffi worked at the Paul Ehrlich Institute inFrankfurt . He taught at theHumboldt University of Berlin from the mid-1940s until 1975, when he retired.After retirement Graffi continued to be involved in cancer research, but more in the area of
chemotherapy and the problems related to it. He received various awards throughout his life including the Academy of Natural Scientists Cothenius Medal in 1977, the Paul Ehrlich Prize in Frankfurt in 1979, the Helmholtz Medal of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1984, anhonorary doctorate from theUniversity of Leipzig in 1990, and the Cross of the Order of Merit from the German government in 1995.Graffi died in
Berlin in 2006.External links
* [http://www.interconnections.de/id_37005.html Obituary of Dr. Graffi]
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