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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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Hermann Müller has received more than 186,257 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Paul Hermann Müller is the 94th most popular chemist (down from 92nd in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 67th 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 94 out of 509. Before him are Felix Hoffmann, Ernest Solvay, Clara Immerwahr, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Edward Adelbert Doisy, and Harold Urey. After him are Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Manfred Eigen, Norman Haworth, Vladimir Prelog, Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, and Gerhard Ertl.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 23. Before him are Duke Ellington, Erich Kästner, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Béla Guttmann, Fritz Albert Lipmann, and Albert Claude. After him are Gloria Swanson, George Cukor, Cevdet Sunay, Jean Moulin, Paul-Henri Spaak, and Bertil Ohlin. Among people deceased in 1965, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 20. Before him are Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, T. S. Eliot, Nat King Cole, Hermann Staudinger, and Moshe Sharett. After him are Helena Rubinstein, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Dorothea Lange, Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, and La Belle Otero.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Paul Hermann Müller ranks 62 out of 876. Before him are H. R. Giger (1940), Gabriel Cramer (1704), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Hans Küng (1928), and Walter Rudolf Hess (1881). After him are Emil Jannings (1884), Alexandre Yersin (1863), Max Frisch (1911), Alisha Lehmann (23), Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784), and Roger Federer (1981).

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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), Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac (1817), Nicolas Théodore de Saussure (1767), Jacques-Louis Soret (1827), and Marc Delafontaine (1838).

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