Siegwart Horst Günther

Professor Siegwart Horst Günther (24 February 1925 in Halle (Saale) – 16 January 2015) was a German physician and activist.

[1] He once worked with Albert Schweitzer in Africa.

He was a prominent proponent of the claim that the use of depleted uranium in munitions causes cancers, birth defects and other pathologies.

In 2007 the Nuclear-Free Future Award honored for the third time Prof. Günther for refusing to back down to pressure and for visiting Iraq to study the real-life consequences of depleted uranium use.

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