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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948

"for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods"
Paul Hermann Müller
Paul Hermann Müller
Switzerland
Laboratorium der Farben-Fabriken J.R. Geigy A.G. (Laboratory of the J.R. Geigy Dye-Factory Co.)
Basel, Switzerland
b. 1899
d. 1965
 
 
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