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Muller, Hermann Joseph

Syllabification: (Mul·ler, Hermann Joseph)
Definition of Muller, Hermann Joseph
  • (1890–1967), US geneticist. He discovered that X-rays induce mutations in the genetic material of the fruit fly Drosophila and thus recognized the danger of X-radiation to living things. Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (1946).

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