Hermann Joseph Muller (1890-1967)

Awarded the Prize “for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation.”

American biologist. Muller was born on December 21, 1890 in New York City. He attended Columbia University from 1907 to 1909. After graduation he took up a teaching fellowship at Cornell Medical School, gaining his ’s degree in 1912. He went to Columbia in 1912 and received his Ph.D. in 1916. He became professor at the University of Texas in 1925. He once worked at the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh, Amherst College, Massachusetts and Indiana University. Muller died on April 5, 1967 at Indianapolis, Indiana.