1899–1965 Swiss chemist whose demonstration that 4,4¢-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was an effective residual insecticide revolutionized strategies aimed at the control of insect-borne diseases.
Keywords: DDT; malaria
Müller, Paul Hermann
WF Bynum, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK
Published online: April 2002
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002423
| Further Reading | |
| book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. | |
| book Fox DM, Meldrum M and Rezak I (eds) (1990) Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology. New York: Garland. | |
