Detlev Ploog

Detlev Ploog ( born November 29, 1920 in Hamburg, † December 7, 2005 in Munich) was a German psychiatrist, primatologist and anthropologist.

Ploog studied from 1939 in Halle, Hamburg and Marburg Medicine, was also a soldier, but was in 1945 a doctorate in Marburg and in 1955 also habilitate. From 1958 to 1960 he was "Visiting Scientist " at the Research Department of the limbic system in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology of Paul D. MacLean at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH ) in Bethesda / Maryland, then went to the Munich Max -Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, where he built the first German laboratory for the study of the neurobiological basis of the behavior of sub-human primates from 1962. From 1966 until his retirement in 1989 he was director of the research clinic.

He was honored with many awards and honorary memberships: an honorary professorship at the University of Munich, the German Federal Cross of Merit 1st class, a Visiting Fellowship at the Rockefeller University in New York, a Dr. phil. H.C. the University of Würzburg and the Dr.- Heinrich -Hoffmann medal of DGKJP and Honorary Membership in the German Society for Psychology. He was in 1971 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1972 the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, 1980, the Bavarian and 1990 Dutch Academy of Sciences; For many years he was also a member of the Commission for the Protection of the Federal Minister of the Interior.

Papers

  • The expression of the emotions in man and animals in: Yearbook of the Max Planck Society, 1980, p 66 ff
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