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Hermann Joseph Muller
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Person

Hermann Joseph Muller

1890 – 1967 · aged 77

American biologist (1890–1967)

Born
21 Dec 1890 · Manhattan
Died
5 Apr 1967 · Indianapolis

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 89 years
  1. 21 Dec 1890BornBorn in Manhattan
  2. 1932AwardGuggenheim Fellowship
  3. 1946AwardNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  4. 1953AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  5. 1955AwardKimber Genetics Award
  6. 1958AwardDarwin–Wallace Medal
  7. 1958AwardJosiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
  8. 1963AwardHumanist of the Year
  9. 5 Apr 1967DiedDied in Indianapolis

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1890 – 1967).

  1. 18961896 Summer Olympics
  2. 1898Spanish–American War
  3. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  4. 1914 – 1918World War I
  5. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  6. 1917Balfour Declaration
  7. 1917February Revolution
  8. 1917October Revolution
  9. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  10. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  11. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  12. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  13. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  14. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  15. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  16. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1938Munich Agreement
  18. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  19. 1939 – 1945World War II
  20. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  21. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  22. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  23. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  24. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  25. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  26. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  27. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  29. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  30. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  31. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  32. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  33. 1956Suez Crisis
  34. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  36. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  37. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  38. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  39. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution

Biography

Hermann Joseph Muller (December 21, 1890 – April 5, 1967) 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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