Édouard Gustave Charles Marie Pecher (24 November 1885 – 27 December 1926) was a

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lawyer and

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politician. He was president of the

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from 1921 until 1926.Milieux de presse et journalistes en Belgique (1828–1914) – p. 376 Pierre Van den Dungen – 2005 "... de file des libéraux anversois, Édouard Pecher." Pecher was a doctor in law and became a member of parliament (1912–1919 and 1921–1926) for the district

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. He was briefly Minister of the Colonies (1926) and died in office. From 1924 up to 1926, he was President of the

. His son was

Charles Pecher Charles Pecher (26 November 1913 – 28 August 1941) was a Belgian pioneer in nuclear medicine. He discovered and introduced strontium-89 in medical therapeutic procedures in 1939. He was the first to report a possible therapeutic role for the b ...

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