Paul Müller was an industrial chemist who discovered that dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) could be used as an insecticide. This was the first insecticide that could actually target insects; in small doses it was not toxic to humans and yet...

Paul Müller was an industrial chemist who dis__covered that dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) could be used as an insecticide. This was the first insecticide that could actually target insects; in small doses it was not toxic to humans and yet...

The Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller (1899-1965) is noted for his discovery of the insecticidal powers of DDT. Paul Müller was born on Jan. 12, 1899, at Olten, Switzerland, the son of an official of the Swiss Federal Railways. The family...

1899-1965 Swiss-born chemist who discovered that the chemical compound dichlorodiphenyltrichloro-ethane (DDT) killed common crop-eating pests. He was granted a Swiss patent for his work in synthesizing the compound in 1940. During World War II, DDT...

Paul Hermann Müller also known as Pauly Mueller (January 12, 1899 – October 12, 1965) was a Swiss chemist and winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of DDT as an insecticide useful in the control of...

HERMANN NITSCH MIKE WEISS GALLERY There are many paths to ecstasy. Some, pace Blake, lead down the road of excess, while others go the way of asceticism. The relationship between heightened states of mind and the process of artmaking has always been...

Hermann Lause war ein wunderbarer Schauspieler, der zwischen Skurrilität und Eiseskälte alle Facetten menschlicher Eigentümlichkeit auszuspielen vermochte. In Nebenrollen gröÃeren und kleineren Zuschnitts lieferte er einfühlsame Charakterstudien von auÃerordentlicher Originalität, wobei er selbst kürzeste Auftritte präsent und präzise zu darstellerischen Kabinettstückchen machte. Er konnte...