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Erwin Wilhelm Müller Erwin Wilhelm Müller (or ''Mueller'') (June 13, 1911 – May 17, 1977) was a German physicist who invented the Field Emission Electron Microscope (FEEM), the Field Ion Microscope (FIM), and the Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope. He and his st ...

.'' Erwin Louis Mueller (March 12, 1944 – June 7, 2018) was an

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player. A 6'8"

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,he attended the

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where he was All-Coast, All Conference & All-America and was selected by the

Chicago Bulls The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago. The Bulls compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded on January 1 ...

in the second round (10th pick overall) of the 1966 NBA draft. During his first season, Mueller averaged 12.7 points per game for the Bulls and earned

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honors. He was traded midway through his second season to the LA Lakers for

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and a draft choice on January 9, 1968. Mueller would return to the Bulls for the start of the 68-69 season by way of another trade through the Lakers sending Keith Erickson to LA for Erwin on September 23, 1968. However his tenure in Chicago would not last through the season. On January 31, 1969 Mueller was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics for a draft choice and cash. In his seven-season (1966–1973) NBA career, he also played for the

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, and

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and scored 3,248 total points. He spent parts of the 1972–73 and 1973–74 seasons in the rival

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as a member of the

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and

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