Published online 1 June 2005
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Obituary |
OBITUARY
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On April 3, 2005, at the early age of 48, our friend and colleague Martin Tabler lost his life in a tragic accident while visiting Bulgaria during a collaborative visit.
A German by origin, he lived in Greece, but was at heart a truly cosmopolitan scientist. Martin started his scientific life as a student of biochemistry at Tübingen University. Through an agreement between his university and the Max-Planck-Institute in Martinsried, he was given the opportunity to enroll in an advanced course under the supervision of Prof. Gerisch and others. In retrospect, it seems that this experience strongly affected his future path, sincelike some others of the best Tübinger Studentenhe returned to the MPI for his diploma thesis to work on viroids, a theme that he followed