Berndt Müller


Berndt O. Mueller is a German-born theoretical physicist who specializes in nuclear physics.

Life

Müller moved with his mother to Frankfurt am Main in 1953, where they joined his father. He enrolled as a student at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1968 and graduated in 1972. Müller received his doctorate, with Walter Greiner as his doctoral advisor, in 1973. In 1974, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and then Research Associate at the University of Washington. From 1976 he was a professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He has been a professor at Duke University since 1990. From 1997 to 1999 he was chairman of the Faculty of Physics and from 1999 to 2004 Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. He is a US citizen. He was, among other guest scientists at Caltech, the University of Cape Town, the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the University of Tokyo, the Yukawa Institute of the University of Kyoto and the University of Arizona.
Müller is concerned with the theory of quark-gluon plasma and evidence of its formation in heavy-ion scattering experiments, but also with chaos in gauge field theories, the Casimir effect, and neural networks.
In 1975 he received the Röntgen Prize of the University of Giessen. In 1998 he received the Senior US-Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2007 he received the Jesse Beams Award from the American Physical Society, of which he is a Fellow since 1994.

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