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It happened today: Nobel Laureate Müller dies
Published: January 9, 2026 · Period: 2026-01-09This insight lists historic events that occurred on the same day in the past.
Karl Alexander Müller passed away on January 9, 2023. Born in Basel, Switzerland, on April 20, 1927, he was a distinguished physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1987 with Georg Bednorz for their pioneering research in high-temperature superconductivity. Müller's academic journey began at ETH Zürich, and he later contributed significantly to the field while working at IBM's Zürich Research Laboratory. His discovery of superconductivity in lanthanum barium copper oxide was a major breakthrough, underscoring his Basel origins and igniting a surge of research that advanced the understanding of superconductive materials. See wikipedia for more information.
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