| K. Alex Müller  AKA Karl Alexander Müller
Born: 20-Apr-1927
Birthplace: Basel, Switzerland
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Switzerland
Executive summary: High-temperature superconductivity Military service: Swiss Army Swiss physicist K. Alex Müller, working at IBM with his former student J. Georg Bednorz, showed in 1986 that a mixture of barium, lanthanum, copper, and oxygen attained superconductivity (disappearance of electrical resistance at extremely low temperatures) at 35 K. While this is almost unimaginably cold, it was substantially higher than temperatures at which superconductivity had been previously observed in any other materials. The article announcing their discovery was published in September 1986, and thirteen months later Müller and Bednorz were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. Father: Paul
Mother: Irma (d. 1938)
Wife: Ingeborg Marie Louise Winkler (m. 1956)
Son: Eric (dentist, b. 1957)
Daughter: Silvia (kindergarten teacher)
High School: Evangelical College, Schiers, Switzerland
University: PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (1958)
Professor: University of Zürich
IBM Fellow 1982
Marcel Benoist Award 1986 (with J. Georg Bednorz)
Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics 1987 (with J. Georg Bednorz)
Fritz London Memorial Prize 1987 (with J. Georg Bednorz)
GPS Robert Wichard Pohl Prize 1987 (with J. Georg Bednorz)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1987 (with J. Georg Bednorz)
Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize 1988 (with J. Georg Bednorz)
APS International Prize for New Materials Research 1988 (with J. Georg Bednorz)
IBM Director of Physics, Zürich Research Laboratory (1972-)
IBM Zürich Research Laboratory (1963-72)
Battelle Memorial Institute Geneva, Switzerland (1959-63)
National Academy of Sciences Foreign Associate, 1989
Author of books:
Properties of Perovskites and Other Oxides (2010, physics; with Tom W. Kool)
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