# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erwin-wilhelm-muller
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:51:03.017Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erwin-wilhelm-muller"
name: "Erwin Wilhelm Müller"
slug: "erwin-wilhelm-muller"
description: "Erwin Wilhelm Müller was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He and his student, Kanwar Bahadur, were the first people to experimentally observe atoms."
tagline: "German American physicist and inventor (1911–1977)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1911-06-13"
deathDate: "1977-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.037974683544303
  historical:           8.946581333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Wilhelm_M%C3%BCller"
    title: "Erwin Wilhelm Müller"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Wilhelm_M%C3%BCller"
    title: "Erwin Wilhelm Müller"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Wilhelm_M%C3%BCller"
    title: "Erwin Wilhelm Müller"
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    title: "اروین ویلهلم مولر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Wilhelm_M%C3%BCller"
    title: "Erwin Wilhelm Müller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Wilhelm_M%C3%BCller"
    title: "Erwin Wilhelm Müller"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мюллер, Эрвин Вильгельм"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump