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BIOLOGIST

Hermann Joseph Muller

1890 - 1967

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Hermann Joseph Muller (December 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967) was an American geneticist who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, "for the discovery that mutations can be induced by X-rays". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Joseph Muller has received more than 345,652 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Hermann Joseph Muller is the 62nd most popular biologist (up from 75th in 2019), the 767th most popular biography from United States (up from 902nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Biologist.

Hermann Joseph Muller was a Nobel Prize-winning American geneticist who is most famous for his discovery of the mutagenic effects of radiation.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Hermann Joseph Muller ranks 62 out of 841. Before him are François Jacob, Erasmus Darwin, Albert Claude, Hugo Theorell, Stanley B. Prusiner, and Ernst Mayr. After him are Linda B. Buck, George Beadle, Max Theiler, John Edward Gray, Herman Boerhaave, and Alexander Oparin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Hermann Joseph Muller ranks 31. Before him are Giorgio Morandi, Victor Lustig, Maria Goretti, Franz Werfel, Fanny Kaplan, and Michael Collins. After him are Groucho Marx, Bohuslav Martinů, Rachele Mussolini, Karl Harrer, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Hans-Valentin Hube. Among people deceased in 1967, Hermann Joseph Muller ranks 25. Before him are Johannes Itten, John Coltrane, Rodion Malinovsky, Richard Kuhn, Françoise Dorléac, and Wolfgang Köhler. After him are Casimir Funk, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Jayne Mansfield, Otis Redding, Ossip Zadkine, and Norman Angell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Hermann Joseph Muller ranks 767 out of 18,182. Before him are Richard Dean Anderson (1950), Bill Russell (1934), John Cassavetes (1929), Harry Belafonte (1927), Willard Libby (1908), and Anne Baxter (1923). After him are Kamala Harris (1964), James B. Sumner (1887), Lana Turner (1921), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), Richard Crenna (1926), and Edward Mills Purcell (1912).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Hermann Joseph Muller ranks 7. Before him are James Watson (1928), Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866), Rachel Carson (1907), Barbara McClintock (1902), Dian Fossey (1932), and Stanley B. Prusiner (1942). After him are Linda B. Buck (1947), George Beadle (1903), John Franklin Enders (1897), Lynn Margulis (1938), Irwin Rose (1926), and Alfred Hershey (1908).

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