Dorothea Kantorowicz Muller

Born: March 26, 1909

Died: August 10, 1986

Married: Hermann Joseph Muller

Children: Helen J. Muller, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Dorothea Kantorowicz Muller was a German Jewish refugee who came to the US with her husband Hermann Joseph Muller in 1940. The couple hid her tuberculosis to gain entry to the country. She eventually came to Saranac Lake and stayed at the Sageman Cottage for six months. She recovered and lived into her seventies.

Her husband, Hermann, was the 1946 Nobel Laureate in Medicine. He worked with Dr. Norman Bethune in Madrid in 1937 and heard about the TB industry in Saranac Lake through Dr. Bethune. Hermann was born in New York City and spent summers as a boy in the Adirondacks. 

A brick at the Saranac Laboratory Museum has been dedicated in memory of Dorothea Muller.