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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Paul Müller was busy in a laboratory in Basel, looking for a drug to protect plants against insects. Trying one combination of chemicals after another, he finally found one that killed flies. He took some of the stuff home, and discovered that it killed mosquitoes too. Dr. Mller's compound was dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He Didn't Know It Was Loaded: He Didn't Know It Was Loaded | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

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