Detlev Ploog (29 November 1920 – 7 December 2005) was a
German
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clinical
psychiatrist
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,
primate
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behavior
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researcher
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and
anthropologist. He was a
soldier
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in the
Second World War
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, attained a
doctorate
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in
Heidelberg
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, was a director of
Munich
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Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry
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and a professor at the
University of Munich
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In addition he received the German
Order of Merit
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(1980) and was a member of many years of a commission of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior.
German neuroscientists
German anthropologists
German psychiatrists
1920 births
2005 deaths
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
20th-century anthropologists
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