Industrial Revolution Impacts from Industrial Revolution Groundbreaking of
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Industrial Revolution
Impacts from Industrial Revolution
Ground-breaking of DDT Paul Hermann Müller, )b. Jan. 12, 1899, Olten, Switz. —d. Oct. 12, 1965, Basel(, Swiss chemist who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1948 for discovering the potent toxic effects on insects of DDT. With its chemical derivatives, DDT became the most widely used insecticide for more than 20 years and was a major factor in increased world food production and the suppression of insectborne diseases.
Disadvantage of DDT
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