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Muller   /mˈələr/   Listen
Muller

noun
1.
Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965).  Synonym: Paul Hermann Muller.
2.
Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927).  Synonym: Karl Alex Muller.
3.
German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858).  Synonym: Johannes Peter Muller.
4.
German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476).  Synonyms: Johann Muller, Regiomontanus.
5.
British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900).  Synonyms: Friedrich Max Muller, Max Muller.
6.
United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967).  Synonym: Hermann Joseph Muller.
7.
A reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation.  Synonyms: muser, ponderer, ruminator.
8.
A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone.  Synonyms: pestle, pounder.
9.
A vessel in which wine is mulled.



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"Muller" Quotes from Famous Books



... future companions. They quote fluently from the Megilloth, and will entertain you by fighting over again the battle of the school of Hillel versus the school of Shammai! Their attainments in philology reflect discredit on the superficiality of Max Muller; and if an incidental allusion is made to archaeology, lo! they bombard you with a broadside of authorities, and recondite terminology that would absolutely make the hair of Lepsius and Champollion stand ...
— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans
... Hermann Muller among others, consider a little wild bee, the Prosopis, which is to be found all over the universe, as the actual representative of the primitive bee whence all have issued that are known to ...
— The Life of the Bee • Maurice Maeterlinck
... bolder ambition,—a work upon which I fondly hoped to found an enduring reputation as a severe and original physiologist. It was an Inquiry into Organic Life, similar in comprehensiveness of survey to that by which the illustrious Muller, of Berlin, has enriched the science of our age; however inferior, alas! to that august combination of thought and learning in the judgment which checks presumption, and the genius which adorns speculation. But ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the dirtiest, greasiest, most dog's-eared, and most bescribbled tome in the collection. Many of the books have remained, during the last hundred years, uncut, even to this day, and I have had to apply the paper knife to many an author, from Alciphron (1790) to Mr. Max Muller, and Dr. Birkbeck Hill's edition of Bozzy's "Life of Dr. Johnson." But Mrs. Radcliffe has been ...
— Adventures among Books • Andrew Lang
... last visit to England Doctor Holmes was the guest of F. Max Muller at Oxford, and years afterwards Professor Muller wrote to an American correspondent ...
— Cambridge Sketches • Frank Preston Stearns


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