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Max Müller

[maks muhl-er; German mahks my-luh r]
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  1. Fried·rich [free-drik; German free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪk; German ˈfri drɪx/. Müller, Friedrich Max.
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Müller

[muhl-er; German my-luh r]
noun
  1. Frie·drich Max [free-drik maks; German free-drikh mahks] /ˈfri drɪk mæks; German ˈfri drɪx mɑks/, 1823–1900, English Sanskrit scholar and philologist born in Germany.
  2. Jo·hann [yoh-hahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn/, Regiomontanus, 1436–76, German mathematician and astronomer.
  3. Jo·han·nes Pe·ter [yoh-hah-nuh s pey-ter] /yoʊˈhɑ nəs ˈpeɪ tər/, 1801–58, German physiologist and comparative anatomist.
  4. Karl Alex,born 1927, Swiss physicist, codiscoverer of superconductivity: Nobel prize 1987.
  5. Wil·helm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/, 1794–1827, German poet.
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Max Müller

noun
  1. See Müller (def. 1)
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muller

noun
  1. a flat heavy implement of stone or iron used to grind material against a slab of stone
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Word Origin

C15: probably from mullen to grind to powder; compare Old English myl dust

Muller

noun
  1. Hermann Joseph. 1890–1967, US geneticist, noted for his work on the transmutation of genes by X-rays: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1946
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Müller

noun
  1. Friedrich Max (ˈfriːdrɪç maks). 1823–1900, British Sanskrit scholar born in Germany
  2. Johann (joˈhan).See Regiomontanus
  3. Johannes Peter (joˈhanəs ˈpeːtər). 1801–58, German physiologist, anatomist, and experimental psychologist
  4. Paul Hermann (paul ˈhɛrman). 1899–1965, Swiss chemist. He synthesized DDT (1939) and discovered its use as an insecticide: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1948
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Muller

(mŭl′ər)Hermann Joseph 1890-1967
  1. American geneticist. He won a 1946 Nobel Prize for the study of the hereditary effect of x-rays on genes.
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Müller

(mŭl′ər, myōō′lər, mü′-)Johannes Peter 1801-1858
  1. German physiologist who studied the physiology of the nerves and sense organs and described (1825) the müllerian duct.
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