Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946
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Hermann Joseph Muller
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946 was awarded to Hermann Joseph Muller "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation"
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