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Paul Hermann Müller was a Swiss chemist who discovered the insecticidal properties of DDT, a chemical that became widely used to control disease-carrying insects like mosquitoes. His work earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948, though DDT was later found to have serious environmental and health consequences.
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- 1899
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- 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.
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