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Hermann Joseph Muller: Quick Facts

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Born December 21, 1890 • New York City • New York
Died April 5, 1967 (aged 76) • Indianapolis • Indiana
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1946)
Notable Works “The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity”
Subjects Of Study X-ray • mutation

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