He was born in Alden, Switzerland, on January 12, 1899.Soon the whole family movedBasel 。After graduating from high school, he joined Delphi Company as a research assistant, and then transferred to Rencha Company as a chemical assistant of the Science and Industry Research Institute.In 1918, he entered the University of Basel to study chemistry. In 1922, he received a doctor's degree. He was a lecturer in the Chemistry Teaching and Research Section of the University of Basel.In 1925, he went to work at the Gaiji Dyestuff Company in Basel.In 1946, he became the deputy director of the Department of Plant Protection Materials Development and Research.
Miller studied vegetable pigments and tanning agents in his early years, and studied leather tanning agents more.After 1933, he began to study insecticides. He first discovered Mitin, a clothing insect repellent. In 1935, he successfully trial produced Gulaminon, a non mercury disinfectant.After 1935, it took four years to trial produce DDT that can kill many kinds of pests. Due to its wide use and good effect, DDT was later praised as "a kind of pest killer" along with penicillin and atomic bombthe Second World WarThree great inventions of the period.He won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his invention of DDT insecticide.
Miller died in Basel, Switzerland on October 12, 1965, aged 66[1]。
