Paul
Hermann Müller was born at
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12th, 1899, and his early childhood was spent at Lenzburg, Aargau, the birthplace
of his father who was an employee of the Swiss Federal Railway. The family moved
to Basle where Paul attended primary school and, later, Free Evangelical elementary
and secondary schools. He commenced work in 1916 as a laboratory assistant at
Dreyfus and Company and the following year he joined Lonza A.G. as an assistant
chemist in the Scientific-Industrial Laboratory of their electrical plant, gaining
a wealth of practical knowledge which
later stood him in good stead in his career
as an industrial chemist. He matriculated in 1918 and returned to school to
obtain his diploma (1919) which entitled him to attend Basle University: he
studied there under Professors Fichter and Rupe for his Doctorate which he received
in 1925. He began his career with J. R. Geigy A.G., Basle, in May, 1925, to
become Deputy Director of Scientific Research on Substances for Plant Protection
in 1946.
Müller's first researches concerned the chemical and electrochemical oxidation
of m-xylidine, and his early work at J. R. Geigy concerned vegetable
dyes and natural tanning agents. He devoted some of his spare time to research
on tanning agents and he invented synthetic agents which tanned hides pure white
- they were, however, not fast to light. Later, in 1930, he developed the light-fast
synthetic tanning agents Irgatan FL and
Irgatan FLT. He worked on disinfectants
for a short while, on moth-proofing agents for textiles, on pesticides in general,
and he developed Graminone, a mercury-free seed disinfectant, before, in 1935,
he started his researches on new synthetic contact insecticides.
Four years of intensive work led to the synthesis of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
(DDT) and the basic Swiss patent was granted in 1940. This compound was originally
made in 1873 by an Austrian student, but had never received any particular attention.
Field trials now showed it to be effective not only against the common housefly,
but also against a wide variety of pests, including the louse, Colorado beetle,
and mosquito; and two products based on DDT, Gesarol and Neocide, were marketed
in 1942. These formulations were brought to the notice of British and American
medical entomologists at a time, during World War II, when supplies of pyrethrum
were rapidly falling short of demand. Production was soon established on both
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Müller has had several papers on his work published in Helvetica Chimica
Acta. He married Friedel Rüegsegger in 1927. They have two sons, Heinrich
(b. 1929) and Niklaus (b. 1933), and one daughter, Margaretha (b. 1934), all
married.
From Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1942-1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964
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Paul Müller died on October 12, 1965.
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