Paul Hermann Müller

Paul Hermann Müller, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1899-01-12 in Olten, Switzerland

Gender: male

Field: 20th-century Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate

Biography

Paul Hermann Müller, also known as Pauly Mueller, was a Swiss chemist who received the 1948 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948

Awarded on: 1948-10-28

"for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods"

Affiliations:

  • Laboratorium der Farben-Fabriken J.R. Geigy A.G. (Laboratory of the J.R. Geigy Dye-Factory Co.) – Basel, Switzerland
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