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I REGRET to have to announce the death of Prof. Dr. Paul Kammerer, who shot himself on the Hochschneeberg, near Vienna, on September 23. In a letter (received after his death) he accuses himself of failures in his personal affairs, but emphasises that he has never committed the scientific tricks hinted at by some of his critics. He deemed the rest of his life too short to be able to take up again the same experiments, and declared himself too weary for this task. Although other than these seem to have been the main causes for his weariness of life, yet this sad end to a precious life may be a warning to those who have impugned the honour of a fellow-worker on unproven grounds. It is in fulfilment of a wish expressed by Kammerer that I beg the editor of NATURE to publish his last word on the much-debated but not solved question of a particular one of his specimens. Having convinced himself of the state it is in now, Kammerer alleges that someone must have manipulated it; he does not allude to a suspicion whom this might have been.
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PRZIBRAM, H. Prof. Paul Kammerer. Nature 118, 555 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118555c0
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