Paul Hermann Müller

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 was a Swiss chemist. He won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods, and he was affiliated with the Laboratory of the J.R. Geigy Dye-Factory Co. in Switzerland when awarded.