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Erwin Wilhelm Müller

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German American physicist and inventor (1911-1977)

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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.

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Awards 7

1976National Medal of Science
1975honorary doctorate of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
1972Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics
1970John Scott Award
1968Centenary Prize
1964Howard N. Potts Medal
1952Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal

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Country
Germany
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1911 to 1977 · aged 65
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10 languages

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