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Hermann Joseph Muller

Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)

Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, "for the discovery that mutations can be induced by X-rays". Muller warned of long-term dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear war and nuclear testing, which resulted in greater public scrutiny of these practices.

21 December 1890

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