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Dr Paul Otto Müller (1915 - 1942)

German: Dr. Paul Otto Müller
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Birthplace: Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria
Death: March 09, 1942 (26)
Petsjenkino, Birskiy rayon, Basjkirostan, Russia (Russian Federation) (Morto sul fronte russo nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale.)
Immediate Family:

Son of k.k. Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Paul Theodor Karl Müller and Bertha Maria Anna Müller
Brother of Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Hans Robert Müller

Occupation: Fisico Nucleare, Physiker
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Managed by: Andrea Cassigoli
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About Dr Paul Otto Müller

Note inserite da Andrea Cassigoli:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3APaul_O._M%C3%BCller:

I have noticed this article about my uncle P.O. Müller which contains several wrong informations and is lacking some biographical data:

P.O. Müller was born April 18, 1915 in Graz, Austria and was Austrian, not German. His father was the bacteriologist Paul Theodor Carl Müller (1873 - 1919), his mother Bertha Maria Anna Hocevar, the daughter of the mathematician Franz Josef Hocevar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franc_Hočevar). He studied physics at Karl-Franzens-University Graz (not FWU Berlin), and worked there for his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Erwin Schrödinger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schrödinger) until Schrödinger left Graz in 1938. Müller received his degree February 25 1939 in Graz. Müller died March 9th 1942 at Pechenkino near Suchinichi, Oblast Kaluga, Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_O._M%C3%BCller:

Paul O. Müller (born April 18, 1915 in Graz; d. March 9, 1942 at Pechenkino near Sukhinichi) was an Austrian theoretical nuclear physicist who worked in the German Uranverein. He was drafted into the German armed forces and died on the Russian Front in World War II.

Müller undertook graduate studies at the University of Graz. He received his doctorate in Graz on February 25, 1939, under Erwin Schrödinger. After 1939, Müller and Karl-Heinz Höcker collaborated with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für Physik (KWIP, after World War II reorganized and renamed the Max Planck Institute for Physics), in Berlin-Dahlem, on the theory behind the Uranmaschine (uranium machine, i.e., nuclear reactor).

Many at the KWIP and those working on the Uranmaschine had the classification of unabkömmlich (uk, indispensable) and were exempt from being drafted into armed service. Both Müller and his colleague Höcker had the classification uk, but their fates were quite different. As the war raged on, the demand for men to provide armed service resulted in Höcker and Müller being drafted in late 1940 or early 1941. Not even Kurt Diebner, managing director of the KWIP, could stop the call-up. Höcker was returned to the KWIP in 1942 due to poor health; Müller had died at the Russian front. It was not until 1944 that Werner Osenberg, head of the planning board at the Reichsforschungsrat (RFR, Reich Research Council), was able to initiate calling back 5000 engineers and scientists from the front to work on research categorized as kriegsentscheidend (decisive for the war effort). By the end of the war, the number recalled had reached 15,000. Many of the scientists called for military service were at institutes under the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gesellschaft (Kaiser Wilhelm Society).

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Dr Paul Otto Müller's Timeline

1915
April 18, 1915
Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria
1942
March 9, 1942
Age 26
Petsjenkino, Birskiy rayon, Basjkirostan, Russia (Russian Federation)