Paul Hermann Müller

Paul Hermann Müller, also known as Pauly Mueller (1899 to 1965), was a Swiss chemist who received the 1948 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of the insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. The source lead for this entry is a single sentence, so the entry records his nationality, his field, his discovery and his prize and leaves his appointments, his employer and the later history of DDT to further research from fuller sources.