1905 - 1979
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, Walther Müller ranks 606 out of 717. Before 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.
1947 - Present
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 600
1895 - 1968
HPI: 47.39
Rank: 601
1853 - 1940
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 602
1936 - 2023
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 603
1887 - 1972
HPI: 47.28
Rank: 604
1874 - 1954
HPI: 47.27
Rank: 605
1905 - 1979
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 606
1890 - 1969
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 607
1901 - 2001
HPI: 47.22
Rank: 608
1926 - 2016
HPI: 47.20
Rank: 609
1931 - 2014
HPI: 47.19
Rank: 610
1904 - 1995
HPI: 47.18
Rank: 611
1945 - Present
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 612
Among people born in 1905, Walther Müller ranks 227. Before 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 173. Before 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.
1905 - 1939
HPI: 48.04
Rank: 221
1905 - 1973
HPI: 47.94
Rank: 222
1905 - 1990
HPI: 47.70
Rank: 223
1905 - 1959
HPI: 47.63
Rank: 224
1905 - 1980
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 225
1905 - 1943
HPI: 47.56
Rank: 226
1905 - 1979
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 227
1905 - 1986
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 228
1905 - 1985
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 229
1905 - 1986
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 230
1905 - 1938
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 231
1905 - 1968
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 232
1905 - 1994
HPI: 47.03
Rank: 233
1903 - 1979
HPI: 47.85
Rank: 167
1887 - 1979
HPI: 47.78
Rank: 168
1912 - 1979
HPI: 47.74
Rank: 169
1908 - 1979
HPI: 47.68
Rank: 170
1949 - 1979
HPI: 47.61
Rank: 171
1940 - 1979
HPI: 47.45
Rank: 172
1905 - 1979
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 173
1899 - 1979
HPI: 47.17
Rank: 174
1896 - 1979
HPI: 47.15
Rank: 175
1892 - 1979
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 176
1933 - 1979
HPI: 46.94
Rank: 177
1911 - 1979
HPI: 46.89
Rank: 178
1898 - 1979
HPI: 46.63
Rank: 179
Among people born in Germany, Walther Müller ranks 4,026 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1907 - 1986
HPI: 47.30
Rank: 4,020
1919 - 1993
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 4,021
1928 - 2001
HPI: 47.29
Rank: 4,022
1760 - 1806
HPI: 47.28
Rank: 4,023
1906 - 1994
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 4,024
1857 - 1928
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 4,025
1905 - 1979
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 4,026
1962 - Present
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 4,027
1638 - 1678
HPI: 47.25
Rank: 4,028
1912 - 1939
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 4,029
1971 - Present
HPI: 47.24
Rank: 4,030
1964 - Present
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 4,031
1909 - 2006
HPI: 47.21
Rank: 4,032
Among physicists born in Germany, Walther Müller ranks 82. Before 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).
1806 - 1877
HPI: 48.78
Rank: 76
1868 - 1957
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 77
1826 - 1899
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 78
1846 - 1931
HPI: 48.48
Rank: 79
1925 - 2001
HPI: 48.37
Rank: 80
1853 - 1940
HPI: 47.35
Rank: 81
1905 - 1979
HPI: 47.26
Rank: 82
1904 - 1995
HPI: 47.18
Rank: 83
1888 - 1976
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 84
1921 - 2016
HPI: 46.24
Rank: 85
1888 - 1985
HPI: 45.92
Rank: 86
1887 - 1964
HPI: 45.33
Rank: 87
1851 - 1934
HPI: 45.10
Rank: 88