Richard A. Muller January 6, 1944 of San Francisco, California, U.S., is a physicist who works at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King Year 1944 ( MCMXLIV) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A physicist is a Scientist who studies or practices Physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley The Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( LBNL) is a U
Dr. Muller began his career as a graduate student under nobel laureate Luis Alvarez doing particle physics experiments and working with bubble chambers. The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Luis W Alvarez (June 13 1911 San Francisco California &ndash September 1 1988 was an American physicist and Inventor, who spent nearly Particle physics is a branch of Physics that studies the elementary constituents of Matter and Radiation, and the interactions between them A bubble chamber is a vessel filled with a superheated transparent Liquid (most often Liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged During his early years he also helped to cocreate accelerator mass spectroscopy and made some of the first measurements of anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background. Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS differs from other forms of Mass spectrometry in that it accelerates ions to extraordinarily high kinetic energies before mass
Subsequently, Dr. Muller branched out into other areas of science, and in particular the earth sciences. Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth Sciences) is an all-embracing term for the Sciences related to the planet His work has included attempting to understand the ice ages, dynamics at the core-mantle boundary, patterns of extinction and biodiversity through time, and the processes associated with impact cratering. An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the Temperature of the Earth 's surface and atmosphere resulting in an expansion of continental Ice sheets The core-mantle boundary (or CMB in the parlance of solid earth geophysicists lies between the Earth's Silicate mantle and its liquid Iron - Nickel An extinction event (also known as mass extinction; extinction-level event, ELE is a sharp decrease in the number of Species in a relatively short period See also Impact crater An impact event is the Collision of a large Meteoroid, Asteroid or Comet (generically One of his most well known proposals is the Nemesis hypothesis suggesting that the sun could have an as yet undetected companion star, whose perturbations of the Oort cloud and subsequent effects on the flux of comets entering the inner solar system could explain an apparent 26 million year periodicity in extinction events. Nemesis is a hypothetical Red dwarf star or Brown dwarf, orbiting the Sun at a distance of about 50000 to 100000 AU, somewhat The Oort cloud ( ort alternatively the Öpik-Oort Cloud) is a hypothetical spherical cloud of Comets believed to lie roughly 50 000 AU, A comet is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun and when close enough to the Sun exhibits a visible coma (atmosphere or a tail —
Richard Muller is a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group which brings together top scientists as consultants for the United States Department of Defense. JASON is an independent group of scientists which advises the United States Government on matters of science and technology The United States Department of Defense ( DOD or DoD) is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government
Richard Muller was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1982. In Particle physics and Quantum chemistry, antimatter is the extension of the concept of the Antiparticle to Matter, where antimatter is composed The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation is a major private grant -making Private foundation based in Chicago that has awarded more than US$4 billion Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) He also received the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation "for highly original and innovative research which has led to important discoveries and inventions in diverse areas of physics, including astrophysics, radioisotope dating, and optics. The National Science Foundation (NSF is a United States Government agency that supports fundamental Research and Education in all the non-medical " More recently, he received a distinguished teaching award from UC Berkeley [1]. His "Physics for Future Presidents" series of lectures, in which Muller teaches a synopsis of modern qualitative (i. e. without resorting to complicated math) physics, has been released publicly on YouTube by UC Berkeley. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload view and share Video clips YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley
For several years, he was a monthly columnist with MIT's Technology Review. Technology Review is a magazine published by Technology Review Inc a media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Muller is married to architect Rosemary Muller.
Published books
- Nemesis: The Death Star (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988) ISBN 0-7493-0465-0
- The Three Big Bangs: Comet Crashes, Exploding Stars, and the Creation of the Universe (with coauthor Phil Dauber, Addison/Wesley 1996) ISBN 0-201-15495-1
- Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes: data, spectral analysis, and mechanisms (with coauthor Gordon MacDonald, 2002) ISBN 3-540-43779-7
- The Sins of Jesus (a historical novel, Auravision Publishing 1999) ISBN 0-9672765-1-9
- Physics for Future Presidents (Custom Publishing, 2006) ISBN 1-4266-2459-X free excerpts)
External links
- Muller's Website
- Free Webcast of Physics for Future Presidents
- Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents - Spring 2006 (streamable videos of Dr. Muller's introductionary physics course.)
- Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents, Berkeley webcast, Winter 2006
- Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents, Berkeley webcast, Spring 2007
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