Karl Alexander Müller: advisors and students

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Karl Alexander Müller

Swiss physicist1927 to 2023

Supervised 1 doctoral student at ETH Zurich; doctorate at ETH Zurich in 1958 under Franz Tank and Georg Busch; Wikidata lists 1 doctoral student. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Advisors2

cited by a thesis record
Franz Tank“Paramagnetische Resonanz von Fe-3+ in SrTiO-3 Einkristallen”
1958 · ETH Zurich · doctoral
cited by a thesis recordstated by Wikidata
Georg Busch“Paramagnetische Resonanz von Fe-3+ in SrTiO-3 Einkristallen”
1958 · ETH Zurich · doctoral

Students1

cited by a thesis record
Thierry Strässle “Effect of pressure on the thermodynamics of rare earth compounds”
2002 · ETH Zurich · doctoral

Students on Wikidata1

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Georg Bednorz
born 1950

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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cited by a thesis recordFranz Tankcited by a thesis recordstated by WikidataGeorg Busch
2 steps up
cited by a thesis recordstated by WikidataPaul Scherrer
3 steps up
stated by WikidataPeter Debye
4 steps up
stated by WikidataArnold Sommerfeld

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 2 people: 1 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Theses1

cited by a thesis record
Paramagnetische Resonanz von Fe-3+ in SrTiO-3 Einkristallen
1958 · ETH Zurich · doctoral · in German · the thesis's own page ›

Education and career3

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undated
ETH Zurich
studied
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University of Zurich
worked
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IBM Research – Zurich
worked

Works1

1958 · held from 1 repository · a work missing?

cited by ETH Research Collection's record
Paramagnetische Resonanz von Fe-3+ in SrTiO-3 Einkristallen
1958 · doctoral thesis · ETH Research Collection

At a glance

known as: physicist, university teacher
fields: physics
awards: IBM Fellow, 1982, honorary doctor of the Leipzig University, honorary doctorate of Salzburg University, Honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva, honorary doctor of the Ruhr University Bochum, honorary doctor of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Munich, Honorary doctors of Ghent University, honorary doctor of the University of Regensburg, Marcel Benoist Prize, 1986, Robert Wichard Pohl Prize, 1987, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1987, Dannie Heineman Prize, 1987, Wilhelm Exner Medal, 1987, Fritz London Award, 1987, James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials, 1988, EPS Europhysics Prize, 1988, honorary doctorate from the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, 1988, Gold medal of the Spanish National Research Council, 1989, honorary doctorate of the University of Metz, 1994, Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1980
member of: Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, from 1988, National Academy of Sciences, from 1989, Polish Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, from 1994, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, from 1987
notable works: superconductivity
Wikipedia: in 69 languages

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Elsewhere8

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaK. Alex Müller
stated by WikidataWikidataQ122298
stated by WikidataVIAF24678238
stated by WikidataGND128792450
stated by WikidataIdRef032580223
stated by WikidataISNI0000000109189493

papers

stated by WikidataScopus7403205282

lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project341713

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  title = {{Karl Alexander Müller: advisors and students}},
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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Karl Alexander Müller: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q122298