Friedrich vogel 1925-2006.

摘要

Friedrich Vogel, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Heidelberg and former director of the Institute of Human Genetics, died on 5 August 2006. Having recovered from two serious illnesses during the last 10 years of his life, he suffered from disability throughout his final year. As a young man, Vogel had experienced a fate typical of his contemporaries. He left school in 1944 and was conscripted into the Wehrmacht, becoming a Russian prisoner of war in 1945. In the autumn of the same year he was fortunate enough to be discharged back to Gennany on the grounds of ill health, a Russian military doctor presumably having felt sympathy for the intelligent young man. Vogel returned to his home town of Berlin and commenced his medical studies at what proved to be the beginning of the cold war period.