What is H. J. Muller?
{{otheruses2|Hermann Muller}} {{Infobox person |name = Hermann Joseph Muller |image =HJ Muller 1952.jpg |image_size = |caption = ''The Journal of Science Fiction'' #4, 1953 |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1890|12|21}} |birth_place = [[New York City|New York]], [[U.S.A.]] |death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1967|4|5|1890|12|21}} | death_place = [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]], [[USA]] |occupation = [[Genetics|Geneticist]] | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] in 1946 }} [[File:Gedenktafel Hermann Joseph Muller.jpg|thumb|220px|Memorial plaque to H.J. Muller in Berlin-Buch.]] '''Hermann Joseph Muller''', generally known as '''H. J. Muller''', (21 December 1890 – 5 April 1967) was an [[Americans|American]] [[genetics|geneticist]], educator, and [[Nobel Prize]] winner. He was best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of [[radiation]], as well as his outspoken [[political]] beliefs. Muller frequently warned of the long-term dangers of radioactive fallout from [[nuclear explosion]]s.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/769450 Hermann Joseph Muller. 1890–1967], G. Pontecorvo, ''Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society'', Vol. '''14''', 1968, 348-389. Retrieved July 14, 2007.</ref> Muller's life was as extraordinary as could be imagined. Born in [[New York City]], he got his PhD at [[California Institute of Technology|CalTech]] in [[Thomas Hunt Morgan|Morgan]]'s ''[[Drosophila]]'' fly lab. He next worked at [[Rice University]], and then spent twelve years at the [[Colleges and universities in Texas|University of Texas]]. Then he moved to [[Berlin]] in 1932, then to [[Leningrad]] (St Petersburg), and then to [[Moscow]]. In all these places he organised a genetics lab, and sometimes taught as well. Then arose the scientific charlatan [[Lysenko]], who saw to it that genuine genetics scientists came under the disapproval of [[Stalin]]. Once again Muller moved, this time to [[Edinburgh]], with