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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of K. Alex Müller has received more than 196,950 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). K. Alex Müller is the 119th most popular physicist (up from 198th in 2019), the 35th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 77th in 2019) and the 3rd 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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  • 200k

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  • 67.76

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 18.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, K. Alex Müller ranks 119 out of 851. Before him are Anders Jonas Ångström, Joseph Henry, Walter Houser Brattain, Arnold Sommerfeld, Paul Langevin, and Joseph von Fraunhofer. After him are James Franck, Isamu Akasaki, Javier Solana, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Julius von Mayer, and C. V. Raman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, K. Alex Müller ranks 14. Before him are Roger Moore, Samuel P. Huntington, Peter Falk, Vladimir Komarov, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Turgut Özal. After him are László Kubala, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Kim Young-sam, Sidney Poitier, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Albert Uderzo. Among people deceased in 2023, K. Alex Müller ranks 26. Before him are Louise Glück, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Paco Rabanne, Ryan O'Neal, and Jacques Delors. After him are Harald zur Hausen, Luis Suárez, Li Keqiang, Ferid Murad, Raquel Welch, and Helmut Berger.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, K. Alex Müller ranks 35 out of 1,015. Before him are Erich von Däniken (1935), Jacques Necker (1732), Joan Gamper (1877), Heinrich Rohrer (1933), Carlo Maderno (1556), and Hermann Rorschach (1884). After him are Karl Barth (1886), Adelaide of Italy (931), Ursula Andress (1936), Franz Mesmer (1734), Eugen Bleuler (1857), and Jacob Bernoulli (1654).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Switzerland

Among physicists born in Switzerland, K. Alex Müller ranks 3. Before him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), and Heinrich Rohrer (1933). After him are Felix Bloch (1905), Auguste Piccard (1884), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Ami Argand (1750), Walter H. Schottky (1886), Raoul Pictet (1846), Walther Ritz (1878), Jakob II Bernoulli (1759), and Alfred Kleiner (1849).

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