Paul Hermann Müller
Swiss chemist (1899-1965)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Swiss chemist who won the 1948 Nobel Prize for discovering DDT's bug-killing properties—a discovery that tangled him into one of history's most controversial chemical legacies.
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Paul Hermann Müller, also known as Pauly Mueller, 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.
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