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K. Alex Müller

1927 - 2023

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Karl Alexander Müller (20 April 1927 – 9 January 2023) was a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. K. Alex Müller is the 53rd most popular physicist (up from 119th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 35th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Physicist.

K. Alex Müller is most famous for his work in the field of quantum mechanics. He is credited with the discovery of the "Müller scattering" which is a type of electromagnetic radiation.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, K. Alex Müller ranks 53 out of 851. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume, Philip Warren Anderson, Gustav Kirchhoff, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Brian Josephson, and Gabriel Lippmann. After him are Wilhelm Wien, Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis, Richard Feynman, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Patrick Blackett, and Henry Cavendish.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, K. Alex Müller ranks 8. Before him are Gabriel García Márquez, Ferenc Puskás, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Günter Grass, Olof Palme, and Gina Lollobrigida. After him are F. Sherwood Rowland, Peter Falk, Roger Moore, Samuel P. Huntington, Kim Young-sam, and Robert Shaw. Among people deceased in 2023, K. Alex Müller ranks 6. Before him are Henry Kissinger, Silvio Berlusconi, Milan Kundera, Jeff Beck, and Gina Lollobrigida. After him are Tina Turner, Constantine II of Greece, Toto Cutugno, Luis Suárez, Martti Ahtisaari, and Bobby Charlton.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, K. Alex Müller ranks 17 out of 1,015. Before him are Sepp Blatter (1936), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Paul Klee (1879), Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Charles Albert Gobat (1843), and Jean-Paul Marat (1743). After him are Élie Ducommun (1833), Johann Bernoulli (1667), Francesco Borromini (1599), Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1945), Albert I of Germany (1255), and Johanna Spyri (1827).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, K. Alex Müller ranks 2. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861). After him are Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Felix Bloch (1905), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Auguste Piccard (1884), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724).

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