Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948
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Paul Hermann Müller
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948 was awarded to Paul Hermann Müller "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods"
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