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Paul Hermann Müller
Full Name of the recipient | Paul Hermann Müller |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
Year of Award | 1948 |
Share in Award | 100.0% |
Award Shared with | |
Motivation for the Award | for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Laboratorium der Farben-Fabriken J.R. Geigy A.G. (Laboratory of the J.R. Geigy Dye-Factory Co.), Basel, Switzerland |
Place of Birth | Olten, Switzerland CHE |
Date of Birth | 12 January 1899 |
Age at the time of Award | 48 years |
Place of Death | Basel, Switzerland CHE |
Date of Death | 12 October 1965 |