Berndt O. Mueller (also Berndt Müller) (born 8 February 1950 in

Markneukirchen Markneukirchen () is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in Saxony, Germany, close to the Czech border. It lies in between the Erzgebirge and the Fichtelgebirge in the Elstergebirge, southeast of Plauen, and northeast of Aš (Czech Republic) ...

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) is a German-born theoretical physicist who specializes in

nuclear physics Nuclear physics is the field of physics that studies atomic nuclei and their constituents and interactions, in addition to the study of other forms of nuclear matter. Nuclear physics should not be confused with atomic physics, which studies the ...

. He is a professor at

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Life

Müller moved with his mother to

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

in 1953 , where they joined his father. He enrolled as a student at the

Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

in 1968 and graduated in 1972. Müller received his doctorate, with

Walter Greiner Walter Greiner (29 October 1935 – 6 October 2016) was a German theoretical physicist. His research interests lay in atomic physics, heavy ion physics, nuclear physics, elementary particle physics (particularly in quantum electrodynamics and quant ...

as his

doctoral advisor A doctoral advisor (also dissertation director, dissertation advisor; or doctoral supervisor) is a member of a university faculty whose role is to guide graduate students who are candidates for a doctorate, helping them select coursework, as well ...

, in 1973. In 1974, he was a postdoctoral fellow at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

and then Research Associate at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

. From 1976 he was a professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He has been a professor at

since 1990 (since 1996 as "JB Duke Professor of Physics"). From 1997 to 1999 he was chairman of the Faculty of Physics and from 1999 to 2004 Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences. He is a

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. He was, among other guest scientists at

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(1980), the

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(1984), the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the

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, the Yukawa Institute of the

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and the

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(1987). Müller is concerned with the theory of

quark–gluon plasma Quark–gluon plasma (QGP) or quark soup is an interacting localized assembly of quarks and gluons at thermal (local kinetic) and (close to) chemical (abundance) equilibrium. The word ''plasma'' signals that free color charges are allowed. In a 1 ...

and evidence of its formation in heavy-ion scattering experiments (via enrichment with

strange quark The strange quark or s quark (from its symbol, s) is the third lightest of all quarks, a type of elementary particle. Strange quarks are found in subatomic particles called hadrons. Examples of hadrons containing strange quarks include kaons ( ...

s), but also with chaos in gauge field theories, the Casimir effect, and neural networks.

Honours and awards

* 1975 — Röntgen Prize of the

University of Giessen University of Giessen, official name Justus Liebig University Giessen (german: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), is a large public research university in Giessen, Hesse, Germany. It is named after its most famous faculty member, Justus von L ...

* 1994 — Fellow of the

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* 1998 — Senior US-Scientist Award of the

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (german: Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung) is a foundation established by the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and funded by the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry of Education and Resear ...

* 2007 �
Jesse Beams Award
from the

* 2021 —

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Books

* with

: ''Quantum Mechanics 2 - Symmetries''.

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. English: Quantum Mechanics: Symmetries.

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1989. 2nd.ed. 1994. * with

: ''Theoretische Physik, Ein Lehr- und Übungsbuch, Band 8: Eichtheorieder schwachen Wechselwirkung''. Harri Deutsch 1986. English: ''Gauge theory of weak interactions''. Springer 2000. 4th ed. 2009. * with

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: ''Quantum Electrodynamics of strong fields'' . Springer 1985. * with Joachim Reinhardt, Michael Stricklandt: '' Neural Networks. An introduction.'' Springer 1991. 2nd ed. 1995. * with T. S. Biro, S. G. Matinyan:
Chaos and gauge field theory
'.

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1994. * with J. Kapusta,

(publisher and co-author):
Quark-Gluon-Plasma. Theoretical Foundations
'' 2003 (reprints). * '' The physics of the quark gluon plasma''. Springer 1985. * with

: ''Die Struktur des Vakuums. Ein Dialog über das 'Nichts.'' Harri Deutsch 1985. English:
The Structured Vacuum - thinking about nothing
'. Harri Deutsch 1985. * with H. M. Fried (Editor): '' Vacuum structure in intense fields''. Plenary Press 1991. (NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cargese 1990) * with Robert Pisarski:
Kay Kay Gee Day : Klaus Kinder-Geiger Memorial Workshop on RHIC Physics and Beyond
', Upton, New York, October 1998,

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, 1999.

Articles

* * with Günter Plunien,

: "The Casimir Effect". In: ''

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''. Vol. 134, 1986, p. 87. * with Peter Koch,

: "Strangeness in relativistic heavy ion collisions". In: ''Physics Reports''. Volume 142, 1986, p. 167. * * all articles by Berndt Müller registered in th
Inspire-HEP database

References

External links

Google Scholar Page

Duke University Page
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