Biography of Karl Alexander Müller

Name: Karl Alexander Müller
Birth Date: April 20, 1927
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Basel, Switzerland
Nationality: Swiss
Gender: Male
Occupations: physicist

Karl Alexander Müller

The Swiss-born solid-state physicist Karl Alexander Müller (born 1927) spent years at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory studying the properties of a class of compounds called perovskites. In collaboration with J. Georg Bednorz, he began to examine their superconducting properties in the early 1980s, which led to the discovery that these compounds superconduct at record high temperatures.K. Alex Müller was born on April 20, 1927, in Basel, Switzerland. His family was fairly wealthy (his grandfather founded a chocolate company) and could afford to entertain Müller's teen-aged interests in radio and electronics. The first years of his life were spent with his parents in Salzburg, Austria, where his father studied music. He and his mother later moved to Dornach, near his birthplace, to the home of his grandparents; and from there they moved to Lugano, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. Müller soon became bilingual. When …showed first 150 words…

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…showed last 150 words…Belgium, Boston University, USA, Tel Aviv, University, Israel, and the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany (1988); University of Nice, France, and Universida Politecnica, Madrid, Spain (1989); and the University of Bochum, Germany and Universita degli Studi di Roma, Italy (1990). He was elected as a Foreign Associate Member of the Academy of Sciences in the United States in 1989. Müller married Ingeborg Marie Louise Winkler in 1956. They have two children: Eric, a dentist, and Silvia, a kindergarten teacher. Further Reading Biographical works on Müller include profiles in Notable Twentieth-Century Scientist, Volume 3 (1995), Physics 1981-90 Nobel Lectures>(1993), and The Nobel Prize Winners: Physics, Volume 3, 1968-1988 (1989). Works that include a discussion of Müller include Randy Simon and Andrew Smith's Superconductors: Conquering Technology's New Frontier (1988), Robert Hazen's The Breakthrough: The Race for the Superconductor (1988), and John Langone's Superconductivity: The New Alchemy (1989). See also Science (October 23, 1987), Physics Today (December 1987), and Müller's Nobel lecture (1987).

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