| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | 
| Year: | 1940 | 
| Number: | 36 - 0 | 
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| Nominee: 
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| Name: | Hermann Joseph  Muller | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1890 | 
| Year, Death: | 1967 | 
| Profession: | Professor | 
| Department: | Institute of Animal Sciences | 
| University: | University of Edinburgh | 
| City: | Edinburgh | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1946 | 
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| Motivation: | Artificial production of mutations by means of X-ray radiation. | 
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| Nominator: 
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| Name: | Karl  Landsteiner | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1868 | 
| Year, Death: | 1943 | 
| Profession: | Nobel Laureate med 1930 | 
| Country: | AUSTRIA (AT) | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930 | 
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