CHEMIST

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Hermann Müller has received more than 202,107 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Hermann Müller is the 90th most popular chemist (up from 94th in 2019), the 60th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 62nd 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 90 out of 602. Before him are Henry Hallett Dale, Johann Rudolf Glauber, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Richard Kuhn, and Edward Adelbert Doisy. After him are Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Frederick Gowland Hopkins, Vladimir Prelog, Leopold Ružička, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, and Katalin Karikó.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 22. Before him are Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Adnan Menderes, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Béla Guttmann, and Albert Claude. After him are Erich Kästner, George Cukor, Paul-Henri Spaak, Gustav Heinemann, Fritz Albert Lipmann, and Cevdet Sunay. Among people deceased in 1965, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 18. Before him are Louise Mountbatten, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Maxime Weygand, Hermann Staudinger, T. S. Eliot, and W. Somerset Maugham. After him are Helena Rubinstein, Nat King Cole, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Dorothea Lange, and La Belle Otero.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 60 out of 1,015. Before him are Henry Fuseli (1741), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Albert I of Germany (1255), Michel Mayor (1942), and Aga Khan IV (1936). After him are H. R. Giger (1940), Daniel Bovet (1907), Emil Jannings (1884), Walter Rudolf Hess (1881), Hans Küng (1928), and Siegfried Wagner (1869).

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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), Germain Henri Hess (1802), Jacques Dubochet (1942), Emil Abderhalden (1877), Victor Goldschmidt (1888), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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