DDT insecticide discovered
1939 · Event
Paul Müller finds DDT kills insects, a wartime lifesaver against malaria and typhus later condemned for its ecological harm.
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Around 1939
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler appointed Chancellor (1933)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Fall of France (1940)