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Ryke Geerd Hamer

1935 - 2017

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Ryke Geerd Hamer (17 May 1935 – 2 July 2017) was a German former physician and the originator of Germanic New Medicine (GNM), also formerly known as German New Medicine and New Medicine, a system of pseudo-medicine that purports to be able to cure cancer. The Swiss Cancer League described Hamer's approach as "dangerous, especially as it lulls the patients into a false sense of security, so that they are deprived of effective treatments." Hamer held a licence to practice medicine from 1963 until 1986, when it was revoked for malpractice. His system came to public attention in 1995, when the parents of a child suffering from cancer refused medical treatment (chemical therapy or chemotherapy) in favour of Hamer's methods. Hamer was charged with malpractice and imprisoned in several European countries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ryke Geerd Hamer is the 147th most popular physician (down from 116th in 2019), the 839th most popular biography from Germany (down from 765th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Ryke Geerd Hamer ranks 147 out of 726Before him are Dickinson W. Richards, George H. Hitchings, William Kaelin Jr., Jang-geum, Ferid Murad, and Charles Best. After him are Ibn Zuhr, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Theodor Billroth, Franz Joseph Gall, Erasistratus, and George Emil Palade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Ryke Geerd Hamer ranks 42Before him are Omar Bongo, Mylène Demongeot, Gherman Titov, Charles Koch, Sylvia Earle, and Jim Peebles. After him are Giya Kancheli, Miroslav Blažević, Adnan Khashoggi, Danilo Kiš, Elsa Martinelli, and Akira Kitaguchi. Among people deceased in 2017, Ryke Geerd Hamer ranks 50Before him are Chester Bennington, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Albert Speer, Kenneth Arrow, George A. Romero, and Derek Walcott. After him are Emma Morano, Jonathan Demme, Malcolm Young, John Surtees, Oliver Smithies, and Adnan Khashoggi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ryke Geerd Hamer ranks 839 out of 7,253Before him are Sabine Bergmann-Pohl (1946), Bernd Schuster (1959), Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (1261), Juana Bormann (1893), Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1729), and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim (1905). After him are Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826), Petrus Apianus (1495), Gertrude the Great (1256), Charles I of Württemberg (1823), Louisa Ulrika of Prussia (1720), and Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (1504).

Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Ryke Geerd Hamer ranks 17Before him are Theodor Morell (1886), Werner Forssmann (1904), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), and Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840). After him are Theodor Billroth (1829), Franz Joseph Gall (1758), Herta Oberheuser (1911), Albert of Riga (1165), August von Wassermann (1866), and Engelbert Kaempfer (1651).