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Paul Hermann Müller

1899 - 1965

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Paul Hermann Müller, also known as Pauly Mueller (12 January 1899 – 13 October 1965), 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Hermann Müller is the 107th most popular chemist (down from 90th in 2019), the 39th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 60th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Chemist.

Paul Hermann Müller was a Swiss chemist who discovered the insecticide DDT. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 for this discovery.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 107 out of 602. Before him are Vincent du Vigneaud, Joseph Black, Henrik Dam, George de Hevesy, Paul J. Crutzen, and Artturi Ilmari Virtanen. After him are Odd Hassel, Yves Chauvin, Jacques Monod, Irving Langmuir, Manfred Eigen, and Melvin Calvin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 20. Before him are Francis Poulenc, Paul-Henri Spaak, László Bíró, Albert Claude, Iskander Mirza, and Fred Astaire. After him are Erich Kästner, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Béla Guttmann, Georg von Békésy, Max Theiler, and Suzanne Lenglen. Among people deceased in 1965, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 16. Before him are Martin Buber, Eli Cohen, Hermann Staudinger, Stan Laurel, Adlai Stevenson II, and Edgard Varèse. After him are Moshe Sharett, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Maxime Weygand, Louise Mountbatten, and Nat King Cole.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 39 out of 1,015. Before him are Emil Theodor Kocher (1841), Joan Gamper (1877), Carlo Maderno (1556), Felix Bloch (1905), Franz Mesmer (1734), and Johann Jakob Balmer (1825). After him are Jacques Necker (1732), Carl Spitteler (1845), Aga Khan IV (1936), Benjamin Constant (1767), Erich von Däniken (1935), and Karl Barth (1886).

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Among CHEMISTS In Switzerland

Among chemists born in Switzerland, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 2. Before him are Albert Hofmann (1906). After him are Richard R. Ernst (1933), Kurt Wüthrich (1938), Emil Abderhalden (1877), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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