Karl Alexander Müller was an award winning Swiss physicist and Nobel Prize winner who in 1987 together with Georg Bednorz, received a Nobel Prize together for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials. Müller was born in Basle, Switzerland to a wealthy family that owned a chocolate company founded by his grandfather. After high school Müller saved in the Swiss Army. After his service he attended Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and studied Physics and Mathematics earning his Ph.... moreKarl Alexander Müller was an award winning Swiss physicist and Nobel Prize winner who in 1987 together with Georg Bednorz, received a Nobel Prize together for their work in superconductivity in ceramic materials. Müller was born in Basle, Switzerland to a wealthy family that owned a chocolate company founded by his grandfather. After high school Müller saved in the Swiss Army. After his service he attended Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and studied Physics and Mathematics earning his Ph.D in 1958. After graduating he found work as a lecturer at the University of Zürich and in 1963 he became a research staff member at the IBM Zürich, a position he kept until he retired. He spent the next 15 years investigating the properties of perovskites compounds. In 1980 he began his research in superconductivity in ceramic materials, a research that would enable him to win a Nobel Prize. He was also a recipient of other awards like the Robert Wichard Pohl Prize of the German Physical Society in 1987, the Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize, the American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials Research and the Minnie Rosen Award in 1988.
