About Detlev Ploog
Lived 1920 – 2005 (aged 85). Detlev Ploog was a German anthropologist, psychiatrist and neuroscientist.
Detlev Ploog (29 November 1920, Hamburg – 7 December 2005, Munich) was a German clinical psychiatrist, primate behavior researcher and anthropologist. He was a soldier in the Second World War, received his medical doctorate from Marburg University in 1945, was a director of the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry and a professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
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Who was Detlev Ploog?
German anthropologist (1920-2005)
When was Detlev Ploog born?
Detlev Ploog was born on 29 November 1920 in Hamburg.
When did Detlev Ploog die?
Detlev Ploog died on 7 December 2005 in Munich.
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Detlev Ploog was an anthropologist, psychiatrist and neuroscientist.
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Detlev Ploog was German.
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