Ruth Pfau
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1929
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Die Energie als Objekt von Delikten, Inaugural-Dissertation... von Emil Pfau
- Und hätte die Liebe nicht
- To light a candle and keep it burning
- Wenn du deine grosse Liebe triffst
- Das Herz hat seine Gründe
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1951
Discography
- Sun Day Blues2015
- Diversity2021
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 47
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,949x
- AutoDock4 and AutoDockTools4: Automated docking with selective receptor flexibility
· 2009 · cited 23,189x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,887x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine
· 2020 · cited 14,075x
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Key facts
- Born
- Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau , ( 1929-09-09 ) 9 September 1929, Leipzig , Weimar Republic
- Died
- 10 August 2017 (2017-08-10) (aged 87), Karachi , Sindh , Pakistan
- Resting place
- Gora Qabaristan, Karachi
- Monuments
- Dr. Ruth Pfau Hospital
- Alma mater
- University of Mainz
- Occupations
- Nun, physician, writer
- Organization
- Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre
- Notable work
- National Leprosy Control
- Awards
- Full list
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Ruth Katherina Martha Pfau, FCM (Urdu: رتھ فاؤ; 9 September 1929 – 10 August 2017) was a German–Pakistani Catholic Christian religious sister and physician who was a member of the "Society of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary". She emigrated from Germany in 1961 and devoted more than 55 years of her life to fighting leprosy in Pakistan. Pfau was honoured with Hilal-e-Pakistan, Hilal-i-Imtiaz, Nishan-i-Quaid-i-Azam, and the Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam awards.
Pfau contributed to the establishment of 157 leprosy clinics across Pakistan that treated over 56,780 people. Fazaia Ruth Pfau Medical College and Dr. Ruth Pfau Hospital are named after her death in Karachi. She died in August 2017 and was buried with full state honours.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ruth Pfau” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.