Hermann Joseph Muller - Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1946
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Hermann Joseph Muller

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — 1946
for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
12/21/1890
place of birth
New York City
date of death
4/5/1967
place of death
Indianapolis
Lived
76 years
work location
  • Bloomington
    • end time: 1964
    • start time: 1945
  • Amherst
    • end time: 1945
    • start time: 1940
  • Edinburgh
    • end time: 1940
    • start time: 1937
  • Moscow
    • end time: 1937
    • start time: 1934
  • Saint Petersburg
    • end time: 1934
    • start time: 1933
  • Austin
    • end time: 1932
    • start time: 1920
  • Berlin
    • end time: 1933
    • start time: 1932
  • Houston
    • end time: 1918
    • start time: 1915
  • New York City
employer
  • Indiana University Bloomington
    • end time: 1964
    • start time: 1945
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Columbia University
  • Amherst College
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Rice University
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 4/23/1953
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
    • end time: 1/10/1949
    • start time: 1933
  • Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
    • start time: 10/5/1947
  • Japan Academy
    • start time: 10/12/1960
  • Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1946
  • American Philosophical Society
    • start time: 1947
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
educated at
  • Cornell University
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Morris High School
  • Columbia University
doctoral student
  • Wilson Stone
  • Guido Pontecorvo
  • H. Bentley Glass
  • Clarence Paul Oliver
  • Elof Axel Carlson
  • Charlotte Auerbach
occupation
  • physician
  • zoologist
  • biologist
  • university teacher
  • geneticist
  • biophysicist
field of work
  • genetics
notable work
  • X-ray
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