# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-a-muller
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:56:03.959Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-a-muller"
name: "Richard A. Muller"
slug: "richard-a-muller"
description: "Richard A. Muller is an American physicist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In early 2010, Muller and his daughter Elizabeth Muller founded the group Berkeley Earth, an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit aimed at addressing some of the major concerns of the climate change skeptics, in particular the global surface temperature record. In 2016, Richard and Elizabeth Muller co-founded Deep Isolation, a private company seeking to dispose of nuclear waste in deep boreholes."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Berkeley-earth-group-meeting-6-25-13-large_Richard_Muller.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1944-01-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump