Karl Alexander Müller (1927–2023)

Born 1927 CE, died 2023 CE.

Karl Alexander Müller (20 April 1927 – 9 January 2023) was a Swiss physicist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials.

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