K. Alex Müller

Karl Alexander Müller (20 April 1927 – 9 January 2023) was a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials.

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Karl Alexander Müller
Müller in 2001
Born(1927-04-20)20 April 1927
Basel, Switzerland
Died9 January 2023(2023-01-09) (aged 95)
Zürich, Switzerland
Alma materETH Zürich
Known forHigh-temperature superconductivity
SpouseIngeborg Marie Louise Winkler (m. 1956; 2 children)
AwardsMarcel Benoist Prize (1986)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1987)
Wilhelm Exner Medal (1987)
EPS Europhysics Prize (1988)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsIBM Zürich Research Laboratory
University of Zurich
Battelle Memorial Institute
ThesisParamagnetische Resonanz von Fe3+ in SrTiO3 Einkristallen (1958)
Doctoral advisorGeorg Busch
Doctoral studentsGeorg Bednorz
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