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Richard A. Muller

American physicist · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1944 · age 82

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.

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1991Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward1982MacArthur Fellows ProgramAward1978Alan T. Waterman AwardAward1944Born6 January 1944

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Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science1991
MacArthur Fellows Program1982
Alan T. Waterman Award1978
Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

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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.

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Born 1944 · age 82

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