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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 54,361 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Walther Müller is the 606th most popular physicist (down from 552nd in 2019), the 4,026th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,376th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Walther Müller ranks 606 out of 717Before him are Stuart Hameroff, Hertha Sponer, Heinrich Kayser, Evelyn Fox Keller, Adriaan Fokker, and Theodore Lyman IV. After him are Paul Scherrer, Franco Rasetti, Ali Javan, Tullio Regge, Ralph Kronig, and Mario Livio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Walther Müller ranks 227Before him are Fausto dos Santos, Vera Panova, Araken Patusca, Zakaria Goneim, Vladimír Holan, and Jenő Rejtő. After him are D. R. Kaprekar, Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald, Kunio Maekawa, Lev Schnirelmann, Albert Dekker, and Gilbert Roland. Among people deceased in 1979, Walther Müller ranks 173Before him are Jan de Klerk, Sigrid Fick, Michael Wilding, Tommaso Landolfi, Mohamed Akid, and Van McCoy. After him are Juan Arremón, Nikolai Tikhonov, Antonio María Barbieri, Maurizio Arena, István Bibó, and Jack Haley.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walther Müller ranks 4,026 out of 6,142Before him are Ludwig Biermann (1907), Axel von dem Bussche (1919), Gerhard Stoltenberg (1928), Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760), Rolf Singer (1906), and Theodor Curtius (1857). After him are Michael Zorc (1962), Bernhard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena (1638), Otto Siffling (1912), Bernd Mayländer (1971), Thomas Berthold (1964), and Hilde Domin (1909).

Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Walther Müller ranks 82Before him are Georg Adolf Erman (1806), Gustav Mie (1868), Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (1826), Emil Warburg (1846), Burkhard Heim (1925), and Heinrich Kayser (1853). After him are Ralph Kronig (1904), Alfred Landé (1888), Ursula Franklin (1921), Paul Peter Ewald (1888), Hedwig Kohn (1887), and Arthur Schuster (1851).