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Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Loading Medicine Nobel Prize
Celebrating breakthroughs in medicine and physiology.
Medicine · 1948
Paul Müller received the 1948 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the high efficiency of ddt as a contact poison against several arthropods. This work opened new questions and influenced later research and practice. This achievement represents one of the major advances recognized in medicine at the time.