Death of Dr. David Greer

November 18, 2014
Fall River, Massachusetts

Former Brown dean whose group won Nobel Prize dies
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JENNIFER McDERMOTT, The Associated Press

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — David Greer, a doctor who co-founded a group that won the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for working to prevent nuclear war and who helped transform the medical school at Brown University, has died. He was 89.

Greer was a founding director of the Nobel-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. He had heart disease and died Tuesday at his home in Fall River, Massachusetts, said his daughter,...

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