Biography
Hermann Joseph Muller (December 21, 1890-April 5, 1967) was born in New York City. He received a B.A. in 1910 and a Ph.D. in 1915, both from Columbia University, where he was a student of T.H. Morgan in his Drosophila laboratory. After teaching at Rice University and the University of Texas, Muller left the United States in 1932 to work in Berlin and then the USSR. In 1937, he left the Soviet Union and made his way Edinburgh where he married his second wife, Dorothea Kantorowicz. During World War II, Muller and his wife were able to find passage back to the United States and Muller accepted a temporary research position at Amherst College. In 1945, Muller took a position at Indiana University where he conducted his most famous research regarding mutational effects of radiation in Drosophila melanogaster. For this research, he received the Nobel Prize in 1946. Muller took an active role in social-scientific issues writing and lecturing on the effects of radiation in humans, atomic fallout, eugenics, and teaching evolution in schools.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Collection
Identifier: EAC
Abstract
The Elof Carlson Collection documents the professional career of Dr. Elof Axel Carlson as a university level professor through his retirement to become a writer. Professionally, Dr. Carlson is best known for his biography of Nobel prize winning scientist Dr. Hermann J. Muller. The breadth and scope of the collection range from scientific research and laboratory notebooks to humorous essays on modern society.
Dates:
1866 - 2022
Collection
Identifier: CIWA
Abstract
This collection contains the administrative records of the directors of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Station for Experimental Evolution (1904-1921) and its successor, the Department of Genetics (1921-1962), and its final institution, The Genetics Research Unit (1962-1974), which was opened in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, in 1904.
These records document the history of a 20th scientific research center and the development of a modern organizational structure through...
Dates:
1898 - 1977
Item — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
David E. Muller discusses the following in his interview:
LIFE IN SCIENCE:
At Caltech;
Discussions With His Father;
Early Life;
Early Memories About Family Life;
Learning Russian;
N.V. Timofeev-Resovskii;
Relationship with his Father While Growing Up;
The Letters Saved by his Mother;
The Mullers Interest in Communism;
"The Spark" A Radical Publication;
Visiting Germany in 1933;
Visiting Leningrad and Learning about Parents' Divorce;
Work in...
Dates:
2004-07-15
Item — Box AV03, miniDV: CSHL1119
Scope and Contents
Helen Muller, daughter of nobel prize-winning Herman Muller, is interviewes by Elof Carlson and Mila Pollock on Febuary 25, 2015.
Dates:
2015-02-25
File — Box 36, Folder: 1-2
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Dr. Matthew Meselson Collection is composed of two record groups: Professional Materials and Chemical and Biological Warfare Materials.Materials in Record Group I were accrued by Dr. Matthew Meselson during his doctorate work at the California Institute of Technology from 1953-1957 under Linus Pauling, his tenure as an Assistant Professor at Caltech, his work with Franklin Stahl in 1955-1957 demonstrating self-replication of DNA, and his tenure as a Professor at Harvard...
Dates:
1918 - 1941
Scope and Contents
The scrapbooks Kitty Brehme Warren maintaned are a primarily visual record of life at the laboratory from 1926 through 1950. Included in these two volumes are many photographs of lab personnel and visitors, the buildings and grounds, and both research-related and recreational events. Several symposium programs and clippings are also included. Dr. Brehme Warren's detailed notations and identifications are reproduced in the index.
Dates:
1911 - 1951
Collection
Identifier: HJM
Abstract
Dr. Elof Axel Carlson, a graduate student of H.J. Muller's at Indiana University, a geneticist, and a historian of genetics, donated this collection to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives. He began gathering the material in this collection while studying with H.J. Muller, although he obtained the bulk of the collection while conducting research for Genes, Radiation and Society, his biography of H.J. Muller. He received materials from Dorothea Muller (the wife of H.J. Muller), from...
Dates:
1900-1982
File — Box CR29, Folder: 02
Identifier: JDW_02_02_1238_001
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The correspondence series includes handwritten and typed letters, carbon copies, postcards and notes dating from 1916-2012. The bulk of the material covers Watson’s sojourn in Cambridge (1951-1954), Harvard (1956-1975) and as Director (1968-1994), President (1994-2003), Chancellor (2003-2007), and Chancellor Emeritus (2007-2011) of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Watson’s career at the Copenhagen Crystallography Lab and time at California Institute of Technology are...
Dates:
1931, 1936, 1961-1968
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Elof Carlson Collection is comprised of personal and professional material accrued by Dr. Carlson primarily during his professional academic career from 1958-2000. Professionally, Dr. Carlson was a professor, a geneticist, and a historian of genetics and the materials reflect these interests. The collection includes course notebooks, lecture notes and teaching files, scientific papers, correspondence, photographs, personal diaries, memorabilia, clippings, and material related to Dr....
Dates:
1917 - 1968