This review briefly covers periods of my early life; experiences during World War II; my school education; and my period as a medical student in Bonn, Hamburg, and Düsseldorf. Mainly emphasized is my scientific career after finishing my medical internship and periods as a postdoc at the Institute for Microbiology in Düsseldorf and the Virus Laboratories of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and as Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Virology in Würzburg, Germany. Subsequent appointment as chairman of the newly established Institute of Virology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, in a similar position at the University of Freiburg, and then for 20 years as scientific director of the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, are discussed, covering the scientific developments during these periods. The emeritus period since 2003 was particularly exciting, leading to the discovery of autonomously replicating plasmids, derived from specific bacteria, and their link to common human cancers (colon, breast, and prostate).

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人类癌症：终身寻找传染源的贡献，自传注释。

这篇评论简要介绍了我的早期生活；第二次世界大战期间的经验；我的学校教育；和我在波恩，汉堡和杜塞尔多夫的医学生时期。主要强调的是我完成医学实习和期间的科学生涯，曾在杜塞尔多夫微生物研究所和费城儿童医院的病毒实验室担任博士后，并在德国维尔茨堡病毒研究所担任高级研究员。随后讨论了在弗莱堡大学担任类似职位的埃尔兰根-纽伦堡大学病毒学研究所所长的任命，然后讨论了海德堡Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum的科学主任长达20年的经历，涵盖了科学发展在这些期间。