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Horst Bickel

Born  1918-06-18
Died  2000-12-01

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German physician, born June 18, 1918, Hamburg; died December 1, 2000, on the island of Rugen.

Biography of Horst Bickel

Horst Bickel was Fanconi's assistant in Zurich when they decribed "their" disease. In 1953 he developed a diet that could prevent the mental retardation of phenylketonuria, known as Fölling's disease.

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