Hermann Joseph Muller (* 21 December 1890 in Manhattan, New York, the USA; "† 5 April 1967 in Indianapolis, the USA) was an US-American biologist and Genetiker. For the discovery that mutations can be caused by X-ray, it received the Nobelpreis for medicine to 1946.

Life

In the year 1927 Muller observed the spontaneous mutation of genes and could by irradiation mutations with baptizing couches cause. It showed in such a way that radiation high-energy can lead to a change of the hereditary property. For this discovery it was distinguished 1946 with the Nobelpreis for medicine.

In the year 1932 Muller pulled to Germany, later to Russia and Scotland. In the year 1945 he became a professor for Zoologie to the Indiana University.

Muller classified different kinds of mutations.

It engaged itself also politically and was considered as a convinced communist. It resisted besides fundamental-Christian attacks on the evolution theory.

Muller succumbed 1967 to a kongestiven heart insufficiency.

Work (selection)

• Hermann Joseph Muller: Artificial transmutation OF the genes. In: Science 66:84 - 87. 1927.

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