K. Alex Müller
Swiss physicist (1927–2023)
- Fame56.1
- Momentum0.9
- Switzerland rank#204
- Fame56.1
- Momentum0.9
- Switzerland rank#204
- Wikipedia1.2K
SwitzerlandHe cracked a puzzle physicists thought was solved — and found that electricity could flow without resistance through materials everyone had dismissed as dead ends.
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Karl Alexander Müller was born on 20 April 1927 in Switzerland. Working alongside Georg Bednorz, he turned to ceramic materials that the field had written off as unpromising for superconductivity. Their experiments proved the conventional wisdom wrong. In 1987, the two shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery. Müller died on 9 January 2023, nearly four decades after the work that opened a new chapter in condensed matter physics.
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