Hermann Joseph Muller

1927 Newcomb Cleveland Prize 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Linnean Society of Londons DarwinWallace Medal . Fellow of the Royal Society

Muller was born in New York City, the son of Frances and Hermann Joseph Muller, Sr., an artisan who worked with metals. He excelled in the public schools. His mothers family was Jewish, and had come from Britain, while his fathers was Catholic and German. As an adolescent, he attended a Unitarian church and considered himself a pantheist in high school he became an atheist. Athe entered Columbia College. From his first semester he was interested in biology he became an early convert of the Mendelianchromosome theory of heredity and the concept of genetic mutations and natural selection as the basis for evolution. He formed a Biology Club and also became a proponent of eugenics the connections between biology and society would be his perennial concern. Muller earned a B.A. degree in 1910.

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