Word: dessauer
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Died. Friedrich Joseph Dessauer, 81, pioneering West German radiologist and Roman Catholic author (Religion in the Light of Contemporary Science), who built the first device capable of taking multiple X-ray photographs of the human heart beating, and was one of the first to discover radiation's therapeutic value in the treatment of tumors; of radiation poisoning (a toxic dose, which he absorbed in his 20s, continued to poison his body until it finally caused his death); in Frankfurt...