PHYSICIST

Walther Müller

1905 - 1979

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Walther Müller (6 September 1905, in Hanover – 4 December 1979, in Walnut Creek, California) was a German physicist, most well known for his improvement of Hans Geiger's counter for ionizing radiation, now known as the Geiger-Müller tube. Walther Müller studied physics, chemistry and philosophy at the University of Kiel. In 1925 he became the first PhD student of Hans Geiger, who had just got a professorship in Kiel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walther Müller has received more than 60,247 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Walther Müller is the 618th most popular physicist (down from 606th in 2019), the 4,348th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,015th in 2019) and the 85th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walther Müller ranks 618 out of 851. Before him are Harold Brown, Gustav Mie, Aleksandr Stoletov, Harold Agnew, Mario Livio, and Grote Reber. After him are Brian Greene, John Lennard-Jones, Lawrence M. Krauss, Sumio Iijima, Georges-Louis Le Sage, and Norris Bradbury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Walther Müller ranks 242. Before him are John Kuck, László Raffinsky, Floyd Gottfredson, Leila Hyams, Kunio Maekawa, and Albrecht Unsöld. After him are Gilbert Roland, Baltasar Albéniz, Mikio Oda, Bernt Evensen, Hadiya Davletshina, and Franchot Tone. Among people deceased in 1979, Walther Müller ranks 181. Before him are Anatoly Kuznetsov, Louis Paul Boon, Yahya Petra of Kelantan, Paul Paray, Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu, and István Bibó. After him are Pyotr Gavrilov, Bernt Evensen, Jan de Klerk, Corinne Griffith, Sigrid Fick, and Gérard Blitz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Müller ranks 4,348 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1679), Konrad Frey (1909), Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (1873), Uwe Timm (1940), Friedrich von Scholtz (1851), and Andriy Taran (1955). After him are Julius Schiller (1580), Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931), Udo Beyer (1955), Heinz Müller (1924), Hans Apel (1932), and Friedrich Tietjen (1834).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walther Müller ranks 85. Before him are Otto Lehmann (1855), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Georg Adolf Erman (1806), Heinrich Kayser (1853), Burkhard Heim (1925), and Gustav Mie (1868). After him are Walter Kaufmann (1871), Alfred Landé (1888), Ralph Kronig (1904), Hans Reissner (1874), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), and Ursula Franklin (1921).

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