Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
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DDT is a well-known pesticide. The abbreviation stands for Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane, one of its names. The Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1948, for his discovery.[1] In the 1960s there was a study that questioned if it was good to spread large amounts of DDT indiscriminately. The study also found that DDT could cause cancer.[2] After that DDT was replaced by other pesticides.
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- ↑ NobelPrize.org: The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1948 Accessed July 26, 2007.
- ↑ Carson, Rachel (1962). Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
