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Paul Hermann Müller

Scientist · born January 12, 1899 · died 1965

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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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  1. ~49Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1948

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