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Karl Alexander Müller
Karl Alexander Müller was a Swiss physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials.
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science · Swiss physicist (1927–2023) · physicist · university teacher · also Karl Alexander Müller, K. Alex Müller, Karl Alexander Mueller, Alex Mueller, Karl Alex Müller, Müller
Born 20 April 1927 · Died 9 January 2023 · Q122298
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2023· 1 entry
2019· 1 entry
Published “Welcome to the Tidyverse” in Journal of Open Source Software — cited 20,638 times.
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1994· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Metz (1994).
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1989· 1 entry
Won Gold medal of the Spanish National Research Council (1989).
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1988· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (1988).
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Awarded EPS Europhysics Prize (1988).
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Awarded James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials (1988).
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1987· 7 entries
Awarded Dannie Heineman Prize (1987).
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Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1987).
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Awarded Fritz London Award (1987).
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Awarded Robert Wichard Pohl Prize (1987).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1987).
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With Georg Bednorz for their discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials
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Müller and Bednorz were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics—the shortest time between the discovery and the prize award for any scientific Nobel
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1986· 2 entries
Awarded Marcel Benoist Prize (1986).
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The two researchers succeeded in achieving superconductivity in lanthanum barium copper oxide (LBCO) at a temperature of 35 K
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1983· 1 entry
Müller recruited Georg Bednorz to IBM, to help systematically test various oxides
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1982· 1 entry
Awarded IBM Fellow (1982).
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Physical Society (1980).
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1963· 1 entry
Accepted an offer as a research staff member at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, where he remained until his retirement
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1958· 1 entry
Müller joined the Battelle Memorial Institute as the manager of a magnetic resonance group
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1952· 1 entry
Worked for one year, then returned to ETH Zurich for a Ph
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1927· 1 entry
Born 1927-04-20.
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1911· 1 entry
To 23 K in 1973 where it had remained for 13 years
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