The unraveling of a Nobel Prize: How Hermann Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize: A front for eugenics.
This paper asserts that the Nobel Prize for Medicine/Physiology that Hermann J. Muller received in 1946 was a front to enhance the legitimacy, acceptance, and application of eugenics, a strategy to guide the direction and rate of human evolutionary change. Seven of the nine people nominating (1932–1...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Occupational & Environmental Hygiene Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 149 - 169 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2025
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