Died 1967-04-05.
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Hermann Joseph Muller
Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation". Muller warned of long-term dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear war and nuclear testing, which resulted in greater public scrutiny of these practices.
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science · American biologist (1890–1967) · biologist · geneticist · university teacher · biophysicist · physician · zoologist · also Hermann Joseph Muller, H.J. Muller, Muller
Born 21 December 1890 · Died 5 April 1967 · Q83598
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1967· 1 entry
1963· 1 entry
Awarded Humanist of the Year (1963).
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1958· 2 entries
Won Darwin–Wallace Medal (1958).
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Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1958).
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1955· 2 entries
Awarded Kimber Genetics Award (1955).
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Muller was one of 11 prominent intellectuals to sign the Russell–Einstein Manifesto, the upshot of which was the first 1957 Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, which addressed the control of nuclear weapons
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1953).
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1952· 1 entry
Nuclear fallout became a public issue; since Operation Crossroads, more and more evidence had been leaking out about radiation sickness and death caused by nuclear testing
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1946· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1946).
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Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, "for the discovery that mutations can be induced by X-rays"
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1942· 1 entry
And the American Philosophical Society in 1947 Muller was awarded the Linnean Society of London's Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1958 and the Kimber Genetics Award of the U
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1940· 1 entry
Took an untenured research position at Amherst College, in the department of Otto C
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1938· 1 entry
With war on the horizon, he began looking for a permanent position back in the United States
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1934· 1 entry
And Muller and his wife were divorced in 1935
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1933· 1 entry
Muller and his wife reconciled, and their son David E
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1932· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1932).
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At the Third International Eugenics Congress, Muller gave a speech and stated, "eugenics might yet perfect the human race, but only in a society consciously organized for the common good"
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1923· 1 entry
Began using radium and X-rays, but the relationship between radiation and mutation was difficult to measure because such radiation also sterilized the flies
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1920· 1 entry
Muller and Altenburg coauthored a seminal paper in Genetics on "modifier genes" that determine the size of mutant Drosophila wings
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1919· 1 entry
Muller made the important discovery of a mutant (later found to be a chromosomal inversion) that appeared to suppress crossing over, which opened up new avenues in mutation-rate studies
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1918· 2 entries
Morgan, short-handed because many of his students and assistants were drafted for the U
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Proposed an explanation for the dramatic discontinuous alterations in Oenothera lamarckiana that were the basis of Hugo de Vries's
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1914· 1 entry
Julian Huxley offered Muller a position at the recently founded William Marsh Rice Institute, now Rice University; he hurried to complete his Doctor of philosophy degree and moved to Houston for the beginning of the 1915
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1912· 1 entry
(after two years of informal participation)
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-12-21.
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1848· 1 entry
And at that time dropped the umlaut from his name
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