Professor Siegwart Horst Günther once worked with Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer OM was a German theologian, organist, philosopher, physician, and medical missionary. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Alsace-Lorraine, at that time part of the German Empire...

 in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

. He is a prominent proponent of the disputed claim that the use of depleted uranium

Depleted uranium

Depleted uranium is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope U-235 than natural uranium . Uses of DU take advantage of its very high density of 19.1 g/cm3...

 in munitions causes cancers, birth defects and other pathologies. In 2007 the Nuclear-Free Future Award

Nuclear-Free Future Award

Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award is an award given to anti-nuclear activists, organizations and communities. The award is intended to promote the opposition to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power....

 honored for the third time Prof. Günther for refusing to back down to pressure and for visiting Iraq to study the real-life consequences of depleted uranium use.

See also

• Nuclear-Free Future Award
  Nuclear-Free Future Award
  Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award is an award given to anti-nuclear activists, organizations and communities. The award is intended to promote the opposition to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power....
  
  
• Hartmut Gründler
  Hartmut Gründler
  Hartmut Gründler was a German teacher from Tübingen, engaged in environmental protection, who burned himself out of protest against the misinformation in the atomic policy of the German Federal Government at that time, which were documented by him, but officially never taken back, and the denial...
  
  
• The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children -- An award winning documentary film produced for German television, streaming on GoogleVideo