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During his undergraduate years at Chicago, Sagan spent some summers breeding fruit flies in the Indiana University laboratory of the famed geneticist Hermann Muller, who won a Nobel Prize for showing that X rays could cause mutations. It was ideal training for an astronomer who would become the premier spokesman for exobiology. He also showed early gifts as a popularizer. He organized a highly successful campus lecture series on science, characteristically including himself as one of the speakers; some faculty members dismissed it as "Sagan's circus," but it drew S.R.O. crowds...
...legendary shipowner-entrepreneur would show up for an honorary degree. Lo and behold, he did. Photographers naturally focused on the new doctor of humane letters in his gold robe and white hood. "You've never had this many pictures taken in your life, have you?" joshed President Steven Muller. "Not willingly," grumbled the last tycoon. "But now I think I kinda like...
...Paul M. Muller Newcastle upon Tyne, England...
Graham, a developer of plastic lenses for eyeglasses, was a friend of the late Nobel Physiologist Hermann J. Muller, who advocated improving the genetic stock of the human race by freezing gifted men's sperm for later insemination of bright women. Converted to Muller's view, Graham several years ago began writing to Nobel laureates, asking for sperm donations. Five said yes, and Graham made collections in the San Francisco and San Diego areas for his subterranean sperm bank-the Hermann J. Muller Repository for Germinal Choice-built on his ten-acre estate in Escondido, Calif...
...haughty 1966 decision to pull French troops out of NATO'S integrated military command, and his persistent exclusion of Britain from the European Community. Why is it that France so often emerges as a difficult partner for the U.S. and NATO? TIME Paris Bureau Chief Henry Muller offers this analysis...