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

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at the

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Biography

Strauss studied medicine from 1969 to 1975 at the

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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

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. He died on 29 May 2013 due to cancer.

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List of Professor Dr. Strauss' PubMed publicationsCitations in google scholarList of Professor Dr. Strauss' publications in ResearchGate
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